Former OpenAI Researcher to Launch AI Education Company

OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, who until February was a key researcher at the startup, is pursuing a new project combining artificial intelligence with education.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Karpathy said he’s launching a company called Eureka Labs, which will use AI teaching assistants to support and expand course materials designed by human teachers. He said the company’s first product will be an undergraduate-level class that will teach students to train their own AI systems modeled as smaller versions of the company’s teaching assistant.

“This teacher and AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common ...