However, the startup has not yet built or tested the efficacy of integrating AI assistants into the classroom. It's also unclear whether Karpathy has self-funded Eureka Labs or received backing from investors, and what the startup's business model is. Karpathy, who has a background in AI and education, has not disclosed whether he's working with other high-profile leaders in the AI sector.
Key takeaways:
- Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an AI education platform that aims to leverage generative AI to create AI teaching assistants.
- Eureka Labs’ first product will be an AI course, LLM101n, an undergraduate-level class that will help students train their own AI, which will be a smaller version of the AI teaching assistant Eureka Labs hopes to build and scale.
- The startup does not yet appear to have built or tested the efficacy of integrating AI assistants into the classroom, and it's unclear if Karpathy has self-funded Eureka Labs or has received backing from investors.
- Karpathy, who taught deep learning for computer vision at Stanford University until 2015, has continued to be an educator throughout his career at Tesla and OpenAI, leading an online course called Neural Networks: Zero to Hero and posting lectures on LLMs and AI on his YouTube channel.