After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an “AI native” education platform. In tech speak, that usually means built from the ground up with AI at its core. And while Eureka Labs’ AI ambitions are lofty, the company is starting with a more traditional approach to teaching.  San Francisco-based Eureka Labs, which Karpathy registered as an LLC in Delaware on June 21, aims to leverage recent progress in generative AI to create AI teaching assistants th

YC-backed CrowdVolt shakes up the secondary ticket market with its bid-ask model The current secondary ticket exchange system is fraught with several issues, such as tickets being resold at prices much higher than their face value, exorbitant fees and other additional costs. Not to mention the risk of purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets, resulting in a disappointing user experience.  CrowdVolt wants to disrupt the space with its user-centric, bid-ask ticket marketplace, which aims to give buyers an affordable ticket price with full transparency. A graduate of Y Combinator’s Winter 2024

Exa raises $17M from Lightspeed, Nvidia, Y Combinator to build a Google for AIs While there’s no shortage of startups aiming to replace Google with AI-powered search (we’re looking at you, Perplexity), a startup called Exa has a different idea: a Google for AI. Humans aren’t the ones who desperately need a new kind of search engine, Exa’s founders believe. Rather, as AI increasingly takes hold in corporate and consumer life, it is the AI platforms themselves that must regularly venture out onto the internet to search for information and return bona fide answers, not hallucinations. And they