Imagine every student and every teacher having a patient, always-available tutor in their laptop that knows the Khan Academy curriculum and can explain things step by step, ask questions back, and guide practice instead of just giving answers. That’s what Khanmigo is: an AI helper built into Khan Academy for learning and teaching.
Traditional classrooms struggle to give each learner one-on-one attention and to give teachers enough time for lesson prep, feedback, and differentiation. Khanmigo uses AI to provide scalable, personalized tutoring and instructional support integrated with Khan Academy’s content, helping students learn more effectively while reducing teacher workload.
Deep integration with Khan Academy’s massive, structured content library and user base; alignment with educational standards; education-focused safety and pedagogy tuning; and institutional relationships with schools and districts create switching costs and a defensible position versus generic chatbots.
Frontier Wrapper (GPT-4)
Vector Search
Medium (Integration logic)
Context window cost and inference latency for large numbers of concurrent student and teacher sessions, plus strict data-privacy and safety requirements in K–12 environments.
Early Majority
Unlike generic chatbots or standalone study apps, Khanmigo is tightly woven into Khan Academy’s existing exercises, videos, and teacher dashboards, with pedagogy-aware prompts and guardrails that are tuned for tutoring rather than answer-giving, making it more classroom-ready and curriculum-aligned than most general-purpose AI assistants.
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