Former OpenAI and Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy took to his X account to announce his new venture, Eureka Labs, an AI-native school. The luminary AI researcher and computer scientist shared that Eureka Labs aims to foster “teacher + AI symbiosis.” On this platform, human experts will curate course materials, which will be scaled and guided by an AI teaching assistant.

As Karpathy wrote on X: “@EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of my passion in both AI and education over ~2 decades… It’s still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping a secret that isn’t.”

The ideal experience for learning anything new, Karpathy noted, is under the guidance of subject matter experts who are “deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world’s languages.”

For instance, he notes how American physicist Richard Feynman would be the best possible teacher for a course on physics. But such experts are scarce and cannot personally cater to 8 billion people, Karpathy noted. 

However, he asserts that with generative AI, this learning feels “tractable.” At Eureka Labs, while teachers will design the course materials, the AI assistant will take up the job of steering students through them. This would allow an entire curriculum to run on a common platform.

“If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large number of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted),” Karpathy forecasted. 

In addition, the scientist revealed that the company’s first product will be “the world’s obviously best AI course,” LLM101n. He added that the undergraduate-level class will enable students to train their own AI.

Further, the course materials will be available online, but Eureka also plans to run digital and physical cohorts of students running through the program together.