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• imjonse
  "We're heads‑down building, and will have products to show by early 2027."By then frontier models may be able to do this by prompting. Even now it is very easy to get one of the chat interfaces to keep quizzing you and adapt to your level, answer your questions, and in general behave how I imagine a tutor behaves. It lacks integrated stats/progress/gamification/long term memory but those can be added by a simple vibecoded app or are usually unnecessary for actual learning.
• docheinestages
  Hopefully the app itself won't look AI-generated like the design of the website.
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  EagnaIonat
  > 01 Plans a path with you> 02 Adapts to how you learn> 03 Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills1 and 2 any of the big AI companies will do that for you. I have Claude doing this for me for a few learning areas.3 to me feels like the Duolingo bird.IMHO, they are trying to solve the wrong thing. People who want to learn will gravitate to learning systems.If you can find a way to pull in people who don't want to learn, that has value.
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  genghisjahn
  Somebody here posted about a Socratic method skill for Claude (or whatever your LLM of choice is). I’ve found this to be fantastic. Dropped in a dense PDF about Linear Algebra, Postgres (those are the two I’ve gotten into so far). It’s basically just a skill.md that reads, “Here’s a document, give me an opening statement about the material and ask me a question. As I provide answers, guide me to simpler or more complex areas of the topic. Something something Socratic method.” Works great.
• zuzuleinen
  As a daily user of Anki and Math Academy, I'm very excited about how software can help us learn.Now, with AI, we can really build tools that were not possible before. I built for myself AlgoTutor[1], a CLI tool that teaches Go developers algorithmic skills and concurrency.The recent Understanding floating point[2] from Oz Nova is also a type of tutorial I want to see more often.[1] https://github.com/zuzuleinen/algotutor[2] https://proto.csprimer.com/fp/
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  sv123
  "Conventional wisdom says AI will replace people. I believe the opposite."So people will replace AI?
• yuanBuilds
  I do think Andrew is the right person doing this. Someone mentioned that the return of financial outcome is not good in edTech, and this is exactly why backing by Coursera is a huge advantage. Education-related product is slow, and it needs patience.The concern, though, is that how to achieve those 3 thesis. Do they train/fine-turn their own model? according to my own experience, the current models are not well trained in personal education context, and it is either too textbook-like or too task-driven.
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  ashu1461
  Is it only me or the website looks vibe coded ? the output feels like a standard claude template.
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  hmokiguess
  Wait, when you say one-to-one you mean AI to Human? That’s not the same, I’m sorry.
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  isubkhankulov
  Edtech has historically not had amazing venture outcomes compared to saas, ads, rockets, etc.Given how much people spend on education, there’s no reason AI education software wont be a huge market.And there’s few people better suited than Andrew Ng to execute this
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• wxw
  I feel like this website would have been better off as just Andrew's letter (halfway down the page) in system default <p> tags.The AI sloppification is palpable.Anywho, curious to see what comes out of this! EdTech & AI is a really promising space.
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  ryanchants
  I'm working on a much smaller idea, but so far it's just me using it for grad school, and a friend using it for his master ciccerone prep. It has been really useful in the class I used it for while building it. Looking forward to playing with more as I start my fall semester(UIUC CS 425, Distributed Systems).I need to get some model pricing evals in place to see if I can use open weight models to get it cheap enough, since it's just me and not VC money. The real product potential seems to be getting reusable materials like cert prep, continuing education for careers that require it, and the like. But then you're fighting incumbents that fiercely control their moats.https://studyengine.app/
• ilya_l
  Reminds me of Karpathy's education startup. I think it had a similar premise. What happened to it?
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  BobbyTables2
  $100M funding is a hell of a lot of money.Yeah, prominent thing run by famous guy … but why so much funding so early?What does $100M enable in the next 5-10 years that $25M doesn’t?
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  Ozzie_osman
  This looks awesome. I'm very excited about how learning will evolve harnessing AI. I'm also a huge fan of Andrew Ng.I wish they hadn't raised so much money. I'm not sure "large funding round" sets up the right dynamic for what he's trying to do.
• madhu_ghalame
  A roadmap showing how learners can progress from beginner to advanced level would add more structure to the learning experience.
• senor_digimon
  I think this is a great space because almost any AI educational product can be measured and evaluated by the end user. For example, does the user improve from using your product and do they also believe they do, and do they also LIKE your product? If not, then they have every right to seek out the perfect AI educational product, of which, I expect a variety of.Personally, I believe the last 40 years or so of academia has failed at creating the proper reactive curriculum for students, so I'm nearly positive anyone that enters the AI education space has a very good chance of proving to their end users that they can out-teach ... I don't know, the entire NY Board of Education, for example.It is not bold at at all to say K-12 will be eradicated. Higher Ed not so much because many were always buying the status of higher education anyway, so the status in itself still has value as a product.
• benji8000
  I wonder what they will do different compared to Khanmigo, which wasn‘t particularily successful wirh full-on AI learning assistance. Support for traditional human learning systems?
• starlineventure
  Ive actually started trying to build games, starting with Roblox, to eventually build a catalog for this same problem. 1:1 learning in the future is probably going to be 80 - 90% gamified because people like playing games. Spent the last 6 months traveling Asia and everybody was playing games on their phones...everywhere. The first game I released is Math Cadet, basically an adventure game to build up math skills for kids elementary and middle school. I have another one in the chamber thats more science related. Any feedback would be great: https://www.roblox.com/games/129132556457079/Math-Cadet-Adve...
• gffrd
  Man, that's a dog of a website.
• aphroz
  So the founder of Coursera is starting a new venture backed by Coursera ? That sounds like the Musk playbook.I don't really get how this is new or even "AI". Can't you already ask Claude to teach you something ?"Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills", that's so nice. Maybe in the future it will be the other way around, your computer will complain about how slow the user is :)
• real-hacker
  deeplearning.ai context hub codream.ai OpenWorker LearnVectorThis guy never stops.
• est
  sounds like mathacademy and many other alike services
• latenightcoding
  he has like 20 AI companies now.
• k2xl
  100M investment from Coursera? Isn't Andrew Ng a cofounder and still chairman?
• rramadass
  The Digital Maieutic: Socrates and the Art of Prompting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342887
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• westurner
  Andrew Ng's Coursera courses: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/andrewng
• ks2048
  “Just one more AI company, I swear…” - last words of an AI-company-junkie.
• luciana1u
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