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An estimated 80% of U.S. school districts have now established dedicated teams to evaluate and procure generative AI technologies.
An estimated 50% of all U.S. teachers have used the AI platform Magic School.
Students at the AI-centric Alpha School are reportedly achieving test scores in the 99th percentile, placing them in the top 1-2% of students nationwide.
Zach predicts that within the next 12 months, the use of AI in education will shift from primarily teacher productivity tools to direct, in-classroom student applications.
During the first year of ChatGPT's availability, users with .edu email addresses were a larger cohort than all other non-student users combined.
The Los Angeles and New York City public school districts initially banned the use of AI following its mainstream emergence.
Anthropic has released a targeted product for the education market called Claude for Education.
OpenAI has launched an education platform and is currently running pilot programs with several universities.
Ohio State University has made the use of AI a mandatory part of its curriculum.
The integration of AI features into Duolingo has improved user completion rates and learning efficacy.
The AI ed-tech platform Magic School has acquired over 5 million users.
Students at Alpha School receive two hours of daily instruction delivered by AI tutors, with the rest of the day focused on self-directed projects.