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Microsoft launches free AI assistant for all educators in U.S. in deal with Khan Academy

Microsoft and Khan Academy are offering a free AI-powered assistant to all U.S. teachers, as part of GPT's broader reach into student and teacher education.

Khan Academy has roughly 170 million registered users in over 50 languages around the world, and while its videos are best known, its interactive exercise platform was one which Microsoft-funded artificial intelligence company OpenAI's top executives, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, zeroed in on early when they were looking for a partner to pilot GPT with that offered socially positive use cases. At a recent virtual event with members of CNBC's Technology Executive Council, where Khan demoed the company's AI education tool, Khanmigo, he recalled being skeptical at first about working with OpenAI and GPT. Amid all the questions about hallucinations, errors, safety, privacy, and cheating, Khan said AI "could get us that much closer to this ideal, in conjunction with everything else we've been doing over the years, of being able to emulate what a great tutor would do."

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