AI has been causing problems for schools and educational institutions ever since ChatGPT first launched, but a new education startup is embracing AI rather than resisting it. Mere months after departing OpenAI, which he helped found, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy announced the launch of his new “AI+Education” startup, dubbed Eureka Labs.
Karpathy calls Eureka Labs a “new kind of school that is AI native,” with the express aim of developing a “Teacher + AI symbiosis” that will allow “anyone to learn anything.” He envisions an education system built from the ground up with AI as its core tenet, with human teachers developing lesson plans while being supplemented in the classroom by digital assistants.
⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
The announcement:
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We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case… pic.twitter.com/RHPkqdjB8R
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) July 16, 2024
“In the case of physics, one could imagine working through very high-quality course materials together with [theoretical physicist Richard] Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way,” Karpathy wrote in his X post, echoing Steve Job’s sentiments from 1985.
“My hope is that, in our lifetimes,” Jobs told an undisclosed dinner party crowd at the time, “we can make a tool of a new kind, an interactive client … When the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying world view of that Aristotle in a computer. And someday a student will be able to not only read the words Aristotle wrote, but ask Aristotle a question. And get an answer.”
To accomplish this lofty goal, Eureka Labs plans to release LLM101n, an undergraduate-level course that teaches students how to build their own AI, in this case a pint-sized version of the company’s full-fledged AI Teaching Assistant. It plans to release the course online and to implement instruction cohorts, both digitally and physically, for people to take it together. There’s no word yet on what such a course could cost, when it will be available, or whether the company has yet studied the effectiveness of an AI-native teaching method. A 2022 study from Georgia State University suggests it could.
Eureka Labs is entering an already crowded field, one that has grown exponentially since ChatGPT’s initial release, and which UNESCO argues “has the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in education today, [and] innovate teaching and learning practices.”
Future AI-empowered learning aids could include AI-generated educational games, tailored specifically to each student’s learning style and needs, adaptive learning platforms, intelligent digital tutors, and automated grading and feedback systems.
Eureka Labs isn’t alone in its pursuit of AI-first education. Google announced Gemini for Classroom just last month and AI apps like Caktus are specifically designed with students in mind.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.