A new wave of Education GPTs, Microsoft's new free AI Reading Coach & the first formal OpenAI-education partnership

A summary of an unprecedented month of activity in the world of AI & education

Hello, Fellow Learning Futurists and happy new year 👋

A warm welcome to the January edition of Learning Futures!

While many of us spent most of December eating cheese in front of the TV, the AI elves have been hard at work and the last month has seen an unprecedented number of AI-education developments. These include:

• the release of a number of interesting education GPTS in OpenAI's new GPT Store, including Khan Academy’s Code Tutor, a prompt engineering professor & an AI Research Assistant;

• the announcement of a new partnership between OpenAI & Arizona State University;

• Microsoft launches a free public preview of its AI-powered Reading Coach;

• the introduction of formal regulations & guidelines for AI use in education by the Governor of Virginia;

• DuoLingo cuts 10% of its contractors by delegating content creation work to AI;

• Anthropic's AI Safety research;

• Google’s DeepMind release of AlphaGeometry, an "Olympiad-level AI for geometry”.

Believe it or not, these are just some the the key developments in the AI-Education space this month.

Let’s dive in an check out all of the pivotal, need-to-know AI-Ed developments this month, and (of course) dig into my thoughts on their implications for educators.

Let’s go! 🚀