{"id":131507,"date":"2021-11-30T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/one-of-the-worlds-best-funded-edtech-companies-is-investing-in-ai-moonshots-can-it-work-news"},"modified":"2021-11-30T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:25:15","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-best-funded-edtech-companies-is-investing-in-ai-moonshots-can-it-work-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/one-of-the-worlds-best-funded-edtech-companies-is-investing-in-ai-moonshots-can-it-work-news","title":{"rendered":"One of the World\u2019s Best-Funded Edtech Companies Is Investing In AI Moonshots. Can It Work? News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-of-the-worlds-best-funded-edtech-companies-is-investing-in-ai-moonshots-can-it-work-news.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Indian edtech giant Byju\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-10-02-how-indian-tutoring-app-provider-byju-s-got-so-big\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">keeps getting bigger<\/a>, having raised more than $4.5 billion since it was founded 10 years ago. This month the company made clear its ambitious research agenda: to achieve the science-fiction dream of building next-generation teaching aids with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the company announced a new research-and-development hub, with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, that will work on applying the latest findings from artificial intelligence and machine learning to new edtech products. The new hub, called <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.byjus.com\/uniquely-byjus\/in-news\/byjus-lab-a-one-of-a-kind-innovation-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Byju\u2019s Lab<\/a>, will also work on \u201cmoonshots\u201d of developing new forms of digital tutoring technology, said Dev Roy, chief innovation and learning officer for BYJU\u2019s, in a recent interview with EdSurge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdtech is one of the slowest adopters of AI so far, compared to some of the other industries out there,\u201d Roy said. \u201cEven in health care, what <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.com\/blog\/announcements\/deepmind-health-joins-google-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DeepMind<\/a> has done with mapping the proteins of DNA\u2014nobody\u2019s doing that in the education sector.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian edtech giant Byju\u2019s keeps getting bigger, having raised more than $4.5 billion since it was founded 10 years ago. This month the company made clear its ambitious research agenda: to achieve the science-fiction dream of building next-generation teaching aids with artificial intelligence. Specifically, the company announced a new research-and-development hub, with offices in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}