🤖 Learning Companions Are Here. Are You Ready?
From early childhood to executive education, AI-powered learning companions are moving in to partner with learners. Back To School Summit Early Bird Registration is open—join us in NYC!
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AI-powered learning companions are entering the market as futuristic novelties to complement core components of the education stack. These tools aren’t just tutoring bots—they’re adaptive, “emotionally” responsive, and multimodal interfaces that blur the line between content delivery and human-like support. From playful avatars in early learning to AI research writing assistants in higher ed and role-playing bots in the workforce, digital companions are popping up to support learners whenever and wherever they need them. As governments pilot national deployments and major players double down on AI assistants, the question isn’t if these tools will scale, but how responsibly and to what effect.
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💪 Power Moves
🤖 Artemis Education has partnered with CodiPlay to provide programming and robotics education across its schools in Qatar and Europe.
🎓 Carnegie Mellon University announced a partnership with Schoolhouse.world, allowing students to gain hands-on experiences as tutors on the Schoolhouse platform.
👩🏻🏫 SchoolAI has launched a free AI readiness program for educators to utilize AI tools in the classroom.
💰 Education Funding
HolonIQ actively monitors and tracks capital flow in the education market, spanning all regions and transaction categories.
🖥️ Shikho, a Bangladesh-based online tutoring provider, has raised $8M to expand its AI-based education offerings.
👶 Footprints Childcare, an Indian preschool and daycare chain, secured $7.5M to open new centres, enhance smart surveillance systems, and improve digital engagement with parents.
🎓 Tutornow, an Italian online tutoring platform, announced that it has raised $1.1M in funding to optimise the matching between tutor and student.
🏫 Polyglots, a Japanese English language learning app, announced that it has raised $1.5M to expand beyond language learning to become a personal growth platform.
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