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Khanmigo has an error rate of approximately 2% when its responses are anchored to Khan Academy's existing content.
AI-based tutoring like Khanmigo, priced at $10-$15 per year, offers a dramatically cheaper alternative to live tutoring, which can cost $25-$50 per hour.
Khan Academy aims to release a feature within the next 1.5 years that will allow its AI to visually interpret and provide feedback on a student's handwritten work on a tablet.
Khan Academy's internal evaluation suite of approximately 200 hard test cases saw an initial failure rate of 70%, which has now been reduced to under 10%.
A future version of Khan Academy's platform will feature a proactive AI that identifies struggling students, notifies their teacher, and allows the teacher to assign a mandatory AI tutoring session with Khanmigo.
Salman Khan aims for Khan Academy to begin offering accredited high school credits and diplomas within the next two years.
Khan Academy serves over 150 million learners across 190 countries.
Khan Academy's AI-powered tutoring assistant, Khanmigo, has been deployed to over 1.4 million students and teachers.
OpenAI provided Khan Academy with access to GPT-4 months before the public launch of ChatGPT.
Khan Academy charges school districts approximately $15 per user per year for Khanmigo to cover compute, support, and training costs.
Khan Academy plans to pilot a new product called "Khan Academy Classroom" during the back-to-school season, which will feature a more proactive AI.
The 2% error rate for Khanmigo is composed of approximately 1% math errors and 1% evaluation errors.