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Link: OpenAI Cofounder Karpathy Launches AI Education Startup — The Information

Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, on Tuesday announced a new artificial intelligence-powered education startup, Eureka Labs. The startup is developing educational content, which will be taught by teachers assisted by AI software. Its first product will be a course on how to train large language models, though the course is not yet available. Karpathy posted on X that Eureka Labs’ content will likely be free, but the company will make money from running virtual and in-person classes going through the materials. #

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