By Mustafa Furniturewala, Coursera CTO
I’m excited to announce that Coursera Coach has received the Newsweek AI Influence Award for AI Training: Finest Outcomes, Business Studying. This award acknowledges improvements utilizing AI to deal with key enterprise challenges and ship measurable affect.
Coach is an AI-powered private tutor designed to make on-line studying extra customized, interactive, and efficient for thousands and thousands of learners worldwide. It’s powered by giant language fashions and uniquely grounded in course materials from prime establishments like Stanford, Yale, and Google. By providing a private tutor that delivers steady assist throughout Coursera’s catalog in 26 totally different languages, Coach helps learners have interaction extra deeply with their programs, no matter their background. Since its preliminary launch, Coach has exchanged over 34 million messages with greater than 2.4 million learners.
“AI is reshaping our world, and the organizations receiving this award are on the forefront of that transformation,” mentioned Jennifer H. Cunningham, editor-in-chief of Newsweek. “We’re proud to highlight the businesses whose applied sciences and practices are pushing the boundaries of what AI can obtain—responsibly and successfully.”
Coach beta was launched in April 2023 — simply six months after ChatGPT’s launch — and I’m extremely excited by the way it represents a serious step ahead in delivering on the promise of customized and accessible studying. From the preliminary pilot on the lecture pages in 2023, to refining the UX to give attention to video explanations, follow questions, pre-quiz prep and course navigations in 2024, we proceed to boost Coach to assist extra learners with even higher personalization, accessibility, and affect throughout the platform. With Coach, international learners, significantly these underserved by conventional training methods, can extra successfully study the talents they should unlock financial alternative.
