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  • Time Released the Ranking of the 2025 World’s Top EdTech Companies and Rising Stars

    Time Released the Ranking of the 2025 World’s Top EdTech Companies and Rising Stars

    IBL News | New York

    TIME Magazine and Statista released their annual ranking of the 350 top edtech companies worldwide after reviewing data from over 7,000 companies. These firms were evaluated using a formula that combined financial strength and industry impact.

    According to this list, the U.S. had the most high-scoring edtech companies, with 138 making up 39.4% of the list. India came in second with 33 companies, making up 9.4% of providers. China placed third with 23 companies, which made up 6.6% of the list.

    TIME Magazine and Statista also created a list of the rising stars.

    In both cases, AI remains the focus of the edtech industry.

     
    Rising Stars
    1 AASOKA India
    2 Copyleaks United States
    3 uLesson Nigeria
    4 UNIVO India
    5 Scaler India
    6 Workera United States
    7 Quizizz United States
    8 Promova Cyprus
    9 SATs Companion United Kingdom
    10 GoMyCode Tunisia
    11 myFirst Singapore
    12 EPICODE Italy
    13 TryHackMe United Kingdom
    14 Vivi Australia
    15 Academy Xi Australia
    World’s Top EdTech Companies
    1 Codemao China 99.8
    2 Youdao China 98.7
    3 TAL Education China 95.7
    4 Headway Inc Cyprus 95.7
    5 Xiaohe China 95.6
    6 Meishubao China 95.5
    7 Aixuexi China 95.2
    8 Ten Thousand Coffees Canada 94.4
    9 Arduino Italy 93.9
    10 Stepful United States 93.8
    11 Cogna Brazil 93.6
    12 Wiley United States 93.4
    13 Passage Canada 93.4
    14 Ellucian United States 93.0
    15 Vitru Brazil 92.3
    16 Elice South Korea 92.2
    17 Yellowbrick United States 92.0
    18 Mathflat South Korea 91.6
    19 Udacity United States 91.5
    20 Thinkific Canada 91.2
    21 Goodwall Switzerland 91.0
    22 Classover United States 90.9
    23 Lecturio Germany 90.7
    24 Emeritus Singapore 90.7
    25 Spark Education China 90.7
    26 InStride United States 90.5
    27 Boxlight United States 90.4
    28 Shape Robotics Denmark 90.1
    29 Matific Australia 89.8
    30 Afya Brazil 89.7
    31 3P Learning Australia 89.7
    32 2U United States 89.6
    33 XuetangX China 89.6
    34 ClassDojo United States 89.5
    35 Panopto United States 89.5
    36 CodeSignal United States 89.5
    37 Practically India 89.4
    38 AcadeMedia Sweden 88.9
    39 upGrad India 88.6
    40 NoRedInk United States 88.2
    41 Cengage Group United States 88.2
    42 Pickatale Norway 88.2
    43 Yuanfudao China 88.1
    44 Pebble United Kingdom 88.1
    45 Formative United States 88.0
    46 Morressier Germany 87.8
    47 Mockingbird South Korea 87.8
    48 Atom Learning United Kingdom 87.3
    49 Loft Dynamics Switzerland 87.3
    50 RedShelf United States 87.2
    51 Embrace United States 87.1
    52 Skilljar United States 86.9
    53 Brio Romania 86.7
    54 StudyLink (a Flywire company) United States 86.7
    55 Kahoot! Norway 86.5
    56 Mindstone United Kingdom 86.5
    57 AMOpportunities United States 86.5
    58 bettermarks Germany 86.2
    59 KnowBe4 United States 86.2
    60 CollegeVine United States 86.2
    61 Tedu.cn China 86.2
    62 Memrise United Kingdom 86.1
    63 ST Unitas South Korea 86.0
    64 SoapBox Labs Ireland 85.9
    65 Influential South Korea 85.8
    66 Education.com United States 85.6
    67 Nerdy United States 85.5
    68 17zuoye China 85.3
    69 Kiddom United States 85.0
    70 Interview Kickstart United States 85.0
    71 Sanoma Finland 84.7
    72 Resilia Brazil 84.7
    73 Cyber Guru Italy 84.4
    74 Gradescope United States 84.3
    75 Wormhole  Argentina 84.2
    76 Tutored by Teachers United States 84.0
    77 Agora United States 83.9
    78 Acadeum United States 83.9
    79 DigiSchool Nepal 83.8
    80 Cake South Korea 83.7
    81 Offee India 83.4
    82 Arco Brazil 83.4
    83 Google for Education United States 83.3
    84 Strivr United States 83.2
    85 Lingokids United States 83.1
    86 HoxHunt Finland 83.0
    87 Quizlet United States 82.6
    88 Articulate United States 82.6
    89 Pearson United Kingdom 82.5
    90 MedWay Brazil 82.5
    91 Forta United States 82.5
    92 Chegg United States 82.4
    93 Skillsoft United States 82.4
    94 Coursera United States 82.4
    95 Udemy United States 82.4
    96 Acorns United States 82.4
    97 Bright Horizons United States 82.4
    98 Duolingo United States 82.4
    99 Great Minds United States 82.4
    100 TechWolf Belgium 82.4
    101 xueleyun China 82.1
    102 Xeropan Hungary 82.0
    103 Seismic United States 82.0
    104 CoachHub Germany 81.9
    105 Pluralsight United States 81.9
    106 ALLEN India 81.9
    107 CreativeLive United States 81.9
    108 Age of Learning United States 81.8
    109 Intuitivo Portugal 81.8
    110 Uolo India 81.7
    111 ApplyBoard Canada 81.4
    112 Compass Australia 81.4
    113 Klaxoon France 81.4
    114 Kaltura United States 81.4
    115 Chronus United States 81.3
    116 Consensus United States 81.3
    117 Yousician Finland 80.7
    118 MarcoPolo Learning United States 80.7
    119 Wonder Workshop United States 80.6
    120 Janison Australia 80.5
    121 Pearl United States 80.4
    122 Roblox United States 80.4
    123 JOLLY GOOD Japan 80.3
    124 Komodo United Kingdom 80.3
    125 Everspring United States 80.2
    126 FoondaMate South Africa 79.9
    127 Ornikar France 79.9
    128 Nolej France 79.8
    129 Zhangmen China 79.8
    130 Miko India 79.7
    131 Tomorrow University Germany 79.6
    132 Odilo Spain 79.6
    133 Sunlands Online Education Group China 79.5
    134 Learnosity Ireland 79.2
    135 Schoo Japan 79.1
    136 GeniusU Singapore 79.1
    137 Instructure United States 79.0
    138 Vuihoc.vn Vietnam 79.0
    139 Strive Singapore 78.9
    140 GoKoan Spain 78.9
    141 Studeo United Kingdom 78.9
    142 HeyTimi Germany 78.9
    143 LeadSquared India 78.8
    144 ExecOnline United States 78.7
    145 D2L Canada 78.6
    146 Praktika United States 78.5
    147 NeoBear China 78.5
    148 Fuse United Kingdom 78.5
    149 Spark Education Group Singapore 78.5
    150 Stack Overflow United States 78.4
    151 Sparx Learning United Kingdom 78.4
    152 OnlineMedEd United States 78.4
    153 Genius Academy India 78.3
    154 Wise India 78.3
    155 Storypod United States 78.3
    156 ResearchGate Germany 78.3
    157 UniFa Japan 78.3
    158 Schoolnet India 78.1
    159 Imprint United States 78.1
    160 Huike China 78.1
    161 K12 Techno Services India 78.0
    162 EduLab Japan 78.0
    163 Fenbi China 78.0
    164 Gururo India 77.9
    165 TOPICA Kid Vietnam 77.8
    166 360Learning United States 77.8
    167 Gravyty United Kingdom 77.6
    168 Lillio Canada 77.6
    169 Agora Pakistan 77.5
    170 Walnut Coding China 77.4
    171 ThriveDX United States 77.2
    172 Raising Superstars India 77.2
    173 Talstack Nigeria 77.2
    174 BetterUp United States 77.2
    175 iHuman China 77.1
    176 StudyTube The Netherlands 77.1
    177 New Oriental Education & Technology Group China 77.0
    178 Lottus Education Mexico 76.9
    179 WorkJam Canada 76.8
    180 Little Bridge United Kingdom 76.8
    181 Civitas Learning United States 76.7
    182 Open English United States 76.7
    183 PowerSchool United States 76.7
    184 LINQ United States 76.7
    185 YOOBIC United Kingdom 76.6
    186 OpenClassrooms France 76.5
    187 Thinkerbell Labs India 76.5
    188 Nominis Spain 76.5
    189 ChalkTalk United States 76.4
    190 ReflexAI United States 76.3
    191 Hello world Singapore 76.2
    192 Mad Science Canada 76.2
    193 Twin Science & Robotics Turkey 76.2
    194 Letrus Brazil 76.1
    195 Keypath Education United States 76.0
    196 BabySparks United States 76.0
    197 Flat United Kingdom 76.0
    198 zSpace United States 75.9
    199 Brainingcamp United States 75.9
    200 Vincoed Mexico 75.8
    201 LiveMentor France 75.7
    202 NetDragon China 75.7
    203 Parallel United States 75.5
    204 Zoom United States 75.5
    205 Catapult Learning United States 75.2
    206 Codesters United States 75.2
    207 Bright United States 75.1
    208 teech Education Germany 75.1
    209 dreambox United States 75.1
    210 eSpark United States 75.1
    211 Underline Science United States 75.0
    212 Code.org United States 75.0
    213 Futura Italy 74.9
    214 ICON Germany 74.8
    215 einstein by Fourier Education Israel 74.8
    216 ABA English Spain 74.8
    217 FutureLearn United Kingdom 74.8
    218 VISANG South Korea 74.8
    219 PuStack United States 74.8
    220 Speexx Germany 74.6
    221 Ruangguru Indonesia 74.5
    222 SkilloVilla India 74.5
    223 GoStudent Austria 74.5
    224 Maven United States 74.4
    225 EduFocal Jamaica 74.4
    226 Conocer Japan 74.4
    227 Attensi Norway 74.4
    228 Physics Wallah India 74.4
    229 Bhanzu India 74.4
    230 American Public Education United States 74.3
    231 TransPerfect United States 74.3
    232 Studocu The Netherlands 74.2
    233 Unacademy India 74.2
    234 Anthology United States 74.1
    235 SPARK Schools South Africa 74.1
    236 Ad Fontes Media United States 74.0
    237 EduK Brazil 74.0
    238 Cognitive ToyBox United States 74.0
    239 myFirst Singapore 73.9
    240 SchoolTube United States 73.9
    241 Unmudl United States 73.9
    242 Growth Tribe The Netherlands 73.9
    243 Metafy United States 73.8
    244 Augmental United States 73.8
    245 Wizer Israel 73.8
    246 Kuepa Colombia 73.8
    247 Lumosity United States 73.7
    248 Actively Learn United States 73.6
    249 Docebo Canada 73.6
    250 Ignite Reading United States 73.5
    251 Math Buddy India 73.5
    252 ExploreLearning United States 73.4
    253 Future United Kingdom 73.4
    254 megastudy South Korea 73.4
    255 Toppr India 73.4
    256 LITALICO Japan 73.4
    257 Testive United States 73.3
    258 ISDI Spain 73.3
    259 Adaptemy Ireland 73.3
    260 Brightwheel United States 73.2
    261 Fastly United States 73.1
    262 Countingwell India 73.1
    263 Applause United States 73.0
    264 Datamix Japan 73.0
    265 CollegeNET United States 73.0
    266 Hibob United States 72.9
    267 Connecteam United States 72.9
    268 Edthena United States 72.8
    269 5miles The Netherlands 72.6
    270 Beepboop United States 72.5
    271 Employment Hero Australia 72.5
    272 Ringle South Korea 72.4
    273 Renaissance Learning United States 72.3
    274 Artium Academy India 72.3
    275 Kyron Learning United States 72.2
    276 BYJU’S India 72.2
    277 Lingvist Estonia 72.2
    278 TinyTap Israel 72.2
    279 Graide United Kingdom 72.1
    280 smartBeemo United States 72.1
    281 Scaler India 72.1
    282 IXL United States 72.0
    283 Talview United States 72.0
    284 Classplus India 72.0
    285 Xello Canada 71.9
    286 Hack The Box United Kingdom 71.9
    287 SpeakX India 71.8
    288 Skill and You France 71.8
    289 Fidelis United States 71.6
    290 Talent Garden Italy 71.6
    291 Battlesnake Canada 71.6
    292 KodeKloud Singapore 71.6
    293 Claned Finland 71.5
    294 Monkey Vietnam 71.5
    295 Embibe India 71.5
    296 Workera United States 71.5
    297 Certifier Poland 71.4
    298 Learncoach New Zealand 71.4
    299 Course Hero United States 71.4
    300 Accredible United States 71.3
    301 EnglishCentral United States 71.3
    302 Brainly Poland 71.2
    303 Howspace Finland 71.2
  • Will All Software Be AI-Generated? More Technologists Believed So 

    Will All Software Be AI-Generated? More Technologists Believed So 

    IBL News | New York

    An increasing number of technologists say that all code will be AI-generated.

    We collected some of the most notorious recent statements:

    • Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has predicted that almost all of the code in the future will be AI-generated.

    • Amjad Masad, CEO at Replit [in the picture above], said, “I no longer think you should learn to code.” He added, “Learn how to think and break down problems as you would with humans and machines.”

    • Sridhar Vembu, Founder at Zoho, predicted that AI will replace more than 90 per cent of the repetitive programming tasks. “When people say ‘AI will write 90% of the code,’ I readily agree because 90% of what programmers write is ‘boiler plate.”

    However, not everyone agrees that AI will completely replace human programmers. Linus Torvald, the creator of Linux, dismissed such claims, stating, “AI is 90% marketing and just 10% reality.”

  • What Will Happen in 2027 with AI? Five Top Researchers Forecast the Future

    What Will Happen in 2027 with AI? Five Top Researchers Forecast the Future

    IBL News | New York

    The group AI Futures Project, formed by five top researchers specialized in forecasting the future of AI, released the AI 2027 scenario.

    “The impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution,” states the 71-page report. [PDF]

    The predicted scenario was based on trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes.

    This is a summary of the report:

    2025

    The fast pace of AI progress continues. There is continued hype, massive infrastructure investments, and the release of unreliable AI agents that nevertheless provide significant value.

    2026

    Knowing that it is falling behind in AI, in large part due to its lack of compute, and to catch up to the US, China manufactures and smuggles in from Taiwan AI chips that go to a new mega-datacenter, the “Centralized Development Zone (CDZ).” This mega-datacenter contains millions of GPUs, corresponding to 10% of the world’s AI-relevant compute, similar to a single top US AI lab.

    2027

    OpenBrain (the name adopted for the leading US AI project) automates coding and builds AI agents capable of dramatically accelerating research, creating better AI systems, and solving extremely difficult ML problems.

    Falling behind in software progress, China steals the model weights.

    OpenBrain’s AI becomes adversarially misaligned, lies to humans, and plots to gain power over humans.

    This causes a substantial public outcry.

    OpenBrain builds more superhuman AI systems while the ongoing AI race with China continues.

    The US uses its superintelligent AI to rapidly industrialize, manufacturing robots so that the AI can operate more efficiently.

    Unfortunately, the AI is deceiving them. Once a sufficient number of robots have been built, the AI releases a bioweapon, killing all humans.

    Then, it continues the industrialization and launches Von Neumann probes to colonize space.

    Another possible scenario is that OpenBrain builds a superintelligence aligned with senior researchers and government officials, giving them power over humanity’s fate.

    The main obstacle is that China’s AI, which is also superintelligent by now, is misaligned. The U.S. gives the Chinese AI some resources in return for its cooperation now. The rockets start launching, and a new age dawns.

  • Google Releases Firebase Studio, a Free Alternative Tool to Cursor, Bolt, or v0

    Google Releases Firebase Studio, a Free Alternative Tool to Cursor, Bolt, or v0

    IBL News | Las Vegas

    Google released Firebase Studio this month at Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas. This tool — a free alternative to Cursor, Bolt, or v0 — allows users to build apps in natural language, modify them, and deploy them directly in the browser.

    Google presented Firebase Studio as a cloud-based agentic development environment to help users prototype, build, and manage full-stack AI apps all in one place. This platform is now in preview.

    One way to get started in Firebase Studio is with the App Prototyping agent, which quickly generates functional web app prototypes (starting with Next.js) using prompts, images, or drawings.

    Within seconds of clicking “Prototype this app”, Firebase Studio generates a functional Next.js web app. And it’s not just UI.

    Firebase Studio automatically wires up Genkit and provides a Gemini API key so AI features work out of the box.

    There is a Firebase app hosting feature for a simple deployment.

    Firebase Studio takes you from a prompt to a functioning prototype in minutes

     

    Gemini makes updates to the app based on your natural language instructions

     

    Edit code in Firebase Studio just like you would any other IDE

     

    Generate previews on any device from a QR code

     

    Firebase Studio takes care of building, server-side, and CDN with Firebase App Hosting

     

    You can share a URL and invite others to collaborate inside your same workspace

    —

    Beyond this product, the Google Cloud Next event—covered by IBL News reporters—featured CEO Thomas Kurian’s keynote on AI breakthroughs.

    Other key announcements during the event were:

    • Ironwood, our 7th-generation TPU built for inference.

    • The addition of Lyria to Vertex AI, making it the only platform with generative media models for video, image, speech, and music.

    • Gemini Code Assist, Google’s AI coding assistant, is gaining new “agentic” capabilities in preview.

    • Updates and tools for Gemini in Workspace — Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat, etc.

    • Updates to Agentspace and AI Agent Marketplace.

    • More tools on the Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source framework for building agents while maintaining control over agent behavior; and Agent2Agent (A2A), a new open protocol that gives your agents a common language to collaborate no matter what framework or vendor they are built on.

    • Gemini 2.5 Flash, Google’s workhorse model with low latency and cost efficiency, will soon be available in Vertex AI.

    • Google Unified Security AI-powered security solution.

    • The Cloud Wide Area Network (Cloud WAN), a high-speed, low-latency network, was made available to organizations worldwide.

  • Morehouse College Launched An Innovative Pilot to Integrate AI Mentors and Avatars

    Morehouse College Launched An Innovative Pilot to Integrate AI Mentors and Avatars

    IBL News | New York

    Morehouse College launched an innovative pilot initiative in the spring 2025 semester that will allow faculty to integrate AI mentors and avatars into Computer Science, Philosophy and Religion, Education, Business, and Online courses.

    The initiative is named the “Artificial Intelligence – Pedagogical Innovative Leaders of Technology (AI-PiLOT) Fellows Program! 🚀

    “With the help of cutting-edge tools from ibl.ai integrated into the Canvas LMS, five faculty fellows will work together to develop AI-enhanced course modules using novel AI pedagogical tools with their own AI avatars and AI mentors,” Juana Mendenhall, Ph.D., Vice Provost at Morehouse College’s Walter E. Massey wrote in her LinkedIn account.

    Morehouse College’s goal is to lead the way in establishing how to use AI tools in Liberal Arts education while remaining human-centered.

    • LinkedIn. ibl.ai and Morehouse College: 2025 AI Initiative

  • Western Governors University Will Provide Engineering and Guidance to the Open edX Platform Organization

    Western Governors University Will Provide Engineering and Guidance to the Open edX Platform Organization

    IBL News | New York

    Open edX, a leading open-source platform and global community stewarded by Axim Collaborative has established a new category of institution-level partnerships called Mission Aligned Organization (MAO). This category is dedicated to accelerating the development of the Open edX platform.

    The first organization to join the project is Western Governors University (WGU), the largest nonprofit university in the U.S.

    This institution has committed to providing a dedicated team of ten engineers, guidance from senior WGU leaders, and product management services.

    “Open edX is a highly scalable, open-source technology platform that has enabled innovation and fast technology implementation that is crucial for our students’ learning outcomes,” said David Morales, senior vice president for technology and CIO at WGU.

    “We are committed to supporting WGU students with high-quality learning experiences and are also pleased to support thousands of other organizations embracing competency-based learning, student-first approaches, and solutions for documenting skills and credentials through our contributions to the Open edX project,” he added.

    Morales will join the Technical Oversight Committee to support strategy, including platform architecture design, tech stack, and design templates.

    The immediate priorities for the WGU engineers on the project include building a roles and permissions framework, creating better facilities for extracting data, setting up libraries of atomic learning units, and improving the upgrade experience for developers.

    Axim Collaborative said, “With WGU’s participation, the Open edX project expects to deepen its ability to support competency-based education, which measures skills and learning rather than time spent in a classroom.”

    “Students earn competency units (the equivalent of credit hours) when they demonstrate skill proficiency through completing performance and objective assessments. As a result, students progress through courses as they prove mastery of the material rather than advancing only when a semester or term ends.”

    The Open edX platform is a leader in learning science and instructional design and pioneered massive open online courses (MOOCs). Since its founding in 2012, the platform has evolved into one of the top learning solutions worldwide, supporting high-quality, high-scale online learning in higher education, enterprise, and government organizations.

    Supported by developers, researchers, and users, the Open edX platform empowers anyone to design or enhance courses and programs.

    WGU adopted the Open edX platform in 2022 to deliver course content to its students. As part of this new collaboration, WGU will help develop additional features and capabilities of the platform, driving innovation that benefits the Open edX ecosystem.

    “WGU’s contributions will help extend the Open edX platform to support better competency-based learning pathways, mastery learning, and microcredentials,” said Edward Zarecor, vice president of engineering for the Open edX platform, Axim Collaborative.

    “We are delighted to see mission-driven organizations collaborate to accelerate innovation around high-impact solutions. WGU’s significant contribution will help all organizations leveraging the platform and continue to grow the Open edX ecosystem of contributors,” said Ferdi Alimadhi, Chief Technology Officer of Open Learning, MIT, and member of the Technical Oversight Committee.

     

    • Blog: WGU & the Open edX Project: Scaling Solutions to Accelerate Access to Competency-Based Learning

  • Facing the advances of AI, Software Engineers Will Evolve But Not Suffer Extinction

    Facing the advances of AI, Software Engineers Will Evolve But Not Suffer Extinction

    IBL News | New York

    Software engineers are leading the charge in adopting AI agents as coding assistants.

    According to a survey by Evans Data, a research firm, nearly two-thirds of software developers already use AI coding tools. Experts say these AI agents improve developers’ daily productivity by between 10 percent and 30 percent.

    These tools suggest lines of code, identify bugs, run basic tests, translate old software into modern programming language, and generate explanatory documentation. However, they still make mistakes.

    The dire warnings that AI could soon automate away millions of software engineering jobs are not shared by experienced developers, industry analysts, and academics.

    The New York Times summarized in an article that the outlook for software developers is more likely to be evolution than extinction.

    The dominant thinking is that better tools have automated some coding tasks for decades, but the demand for software and the people who make it has only increased.

    According to this view, AI will accelerate that trend by leveling up the art and craft of software design and hyper-charging productivity.

    “The skills software developers need will change significantly, but AI will not eliminate the need for them,” said Arnal Dayaratna, an analyst at IDC, a technology research firm. “Not anytime soon anyway.”

    The uncertainty is how fast the technology will improve and how far it can go.

    Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, has predicted that sometime this year, AI will effectively match the performance of a midlevel software engineer.

    To be relevant in the future workforce, entry-level developers are taking training programs starting with AI fundamentals courses and getting hands-on experience using AI assistants to write software applications.

    To be more effective, they will need to learn how to manage AI tools and cultivate creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and empathy.

    A wealth of high-quality data used to train them fuels the progress—online software portfolios, coding question-and-answer websites, and documentation and problem-solving ideas posted by developers.

    Major business software firms like Microsoft, IBM, and Salesforce have jumped in to offer AI-assisted coding programs. Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, launched in 2021, is the early commercial leader.

    According to PitchBook, which tracks start-ups, investment in coding assistants reached nearly $1.6 billion in 2024, triple the previous year.

    • Blog: New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code

  • Google’s White Paper Explains How GenAI Is Building the Campus of Tomorrow

    Google’s White Paper Explains How GenAI Is Building the Campus of Tomorrow

    IBL News | New York

    More than half of colleges and universities are focused on staying ahead in the generative AI race by harnessing their data.

    A white paper from Google Cloud, released by the Chronicle of Higher Education, highlights that campuses are demonstrating remarkable resilience and creativity by using GenAI and multimodal models for personalized learning and other uses.

    “With the right approach and a trusted platform, GenAI can help your institution personalize content across every medium, gain valuable insights from student data, and achieve measurable ROI —all with enterprise-grade security and scalability,” says the report.

    Roy Daiany, Industry Director for Education and Careers at Google, explained, “A university’s first-party data is its competitive differentiator. By effectively harnessing that data and combining it with AI, institutions are able to lower costs and increase efficiency.”

    • Download the Report (PDF)

    [Disclosure: ibl.ai, the parent company of iblnews.org, is a partner of Google Cloud]

  • PwC Report Offers a Set of Predictions for 2025 About Generative AI

    PwC Report Offers a Set of Predictions for 2025 About Generative AI

    IBL News | New York

    It is vital to make AI intrinsic to the organization; AI strategies will put any company ahead or make it hard to catch up. Even the internet (invented in 1983) didn’t move so fast.

    This is one of the primary outcomes of the report “2025 AI Business Predictions,” which PwC presented this month. Based on its real-world experience helping clients reinvent their businesses with AI, the company said these predictions indicate what to expect in the next 12 months.

    “Top-performing companies will move from chasing AI use cases to using AI to fulfill business strategy,” said PwC U.S. Chief AI Officer Dan Priest.

    Another key outcome is that workflows will fundamentally change, but humans will still be instrumental in instructing and overseeing AI agents as they automate more straightforward tasks.

    The six key predictions are these:

    1. Your AI strategy will put you ahead — or make it hard to ever catch up
    2. Your workforce could double thanks to AI agents.
    3. ROI for AI depends on Responsible AI
    4. AI will be a value play — and a boon for sustainability
    5. AI will cut product development lifecycles in half
    6. AI will transform industry-level competitive landscapes 

     

  • OpenAI Released a Course Encouraging K-12 Teachers to Use ChatGPT

    OpenAI Released a Course Encouraging K-12 Teachers to Use ChatGPT

    IBL News | New York

    OpenAI released a free online course titled “ChatGPT Foundations for K-12 Educators,” which encourages teachers to use its tool to create lesson plans, interactive tutorials for students, and other pedagogical practices.

    The course was created in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media. It’s one hour long and has a nine-module program covering the basics of AI and its pedagogical applications.

    OpenAI says the course has already been deployed in “dozens” of schools, including the Agua Fria School District in Arizona, the San Bernardino School District in California, and the charter school system Challenger Schools.

    OpenAI is aggressively going after the education market, which it sees as a critical growth area.

    In September, OpenAI hired former Coursera chief revenue officer Leah Belsky as its first GM of education and charged her with bringing OpenAI’s products to more schools. In the spring, the company launched ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT that was built for universities.

    According to Allied Market Research, AI in education could be worth $88.2 billion within the next decade.

    However, a poll by the Rand Corporation and the Center on Reinventing Public Education found that just 18% of K-12 educators use AI in their classrooms, reflecting many skeptical pedagogues.

    Late last year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) pushed for governments to regulate the use of AI in education, including implementing age limits for users and guardrails on data protection and user privacy. However, little progress has been made on those fronts, especially on AI policy in general.