UCLA offers comp lit course developed by AI

Growing up as an immigrant, Cyril Gorlla taught himself how to code — and practiced as if a man possessed. “I aced my mother’s community college programming course at 11, amidst periodically disconnected household utilities,” he told TechCrunch. In high school, Gorlla learned about AI, and became so obsessed with the idea of training his own AI models that he took apart his laptop to upgrade the internal cooling. This tinkering led to an internship at Intel during Gorlla’s second year in colle

Oct 29, 2024

More than 100 colleges and high schools are turning to a new AI tool called Nectir, allowing teachers to create a personalized learning partner that’s trained on their syllabi, textbooks, and assignments to help students with anything from questions related to their coursework to essay writing assistance and even future career guidance. The company announced Thursday its $4 million seed funding round, bringing the total amount raised to $6.3 million. The new capital will be used to develop new

Dec 5, 2024

There’s no shortage of startups trying to create enterprise AI assistants. What’s less common is an AI assistant that can actually execute tasks across several of your work apps at once. That’s the promise of Narada AI, a startup building an AI assistant based on new research out of UC Berkeley. Narada has been operating in stealth mode for two years, and made its public debut onstage today as part of the Startup Battlefield 20 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Two of its co-founders, Kurt Keutzer an

Oct 29, 2024

Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.

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