July 16 (Reuters) - Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy

announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated

education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of

experience at ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Tesla.

Education platforms have taken advantage of the boom in

generative artificial intelligence since the launch of ChatGPT

in November 2022 to improve and create digital learning content.

A teacher would design courses on the Eureka Labs platform,

but they would be aided by an AI teaching assistant to guide

students through the learning material, Karpathy said in a post

on X.

The company's first product is LLM101n, an

undergraduate-level class that helps students train their own AI

models similar to a scaled-down version of the teaching

assistant.

Karpathy was among the founding members of OpenAI in 2015

and, two years later, Tesla hired him to lead the company's

autopilot division, building advanced driver assistance

software.

"Eureka Labs is the culmination of my passion in both AI and

education over about 2 decades," Karpathy said in the post.

Karpathy - who received a PhD from Stanford University -

started posting tutorial videos on how to solve Rubik's cubes

and over the years has published content online exploring

concepts related to AI.