VideoTutor

Excited to announce that @VideoTutor has raised an $11M Seed round led by @yzilabs, with support from @amino_capital and BV FUND、JinQiu Fund and others. From day one, we’ve set out to redefine how students learn with AI transforming passive watching into interactive mastery. Our platform combines large language models with a proprietary math animation engine to deliver fully automated, step-by-step lessons and real-time feedback. With this new funding, we’re accelerating product development, expanding our engineering team, and partnering with schools worldwide to make high-quality, personalized AI learning accessible to every student. We’re always looking for talented people to join us and help build the future of learning together. #AI #EdTech #VideoTutor #LearningReimagined

June 1983. A 28-year-old Steve Jobs walks into a design conference in Aspen, Colorado. He asks the room who owns a personal computer. Nobody raises their hand. He says “Uh-oh.” Then he spends the next 55 minutes describing the next four decades of technology. Jobs told the audience Apple’s strategy was to “put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you, that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes… with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything.” That’s an iPhone. In 1983. The Mac hadn’t even shipped yet. He described an MIT project that sent a camera truck down every street in Aspen, photographed every intersection, and built a virtual walkthrough on a computer screen. Google Street View launched 24 years later. He said office networking was about 5 years away and home networking 10 to 15 years out. The web went mainstream in the mid-90s, about 12 years later. Dead on. He described software being sent electronically over phone lines, with free previews and credit card payment. That’s the App Store, 25 years before it launched. He even compared it to the music industry and said software needed “the equivalent of a radio station” for free sampling. Apple built the iTunes Music Store 20 years later. The AI prediction is the one that hits different now. Near the end, Jobs talked about machines that could capture a person’s “underlying spirit” or “way of looking at the world,” so that after they died, you could ask the machine questions and maybe get answers. He said 50 to 100 years. ChatGPT arrived in about 40. The weird part is this speech was lost for nearly 30 years. The full hour-long recording only surfaced in 2012 when a blogger got a cassette tape from someone who attended the original conference. The Steve Jobs Archive didn’t release actual video footage until July 2024. His timelines were consistently too fast. He wanted the “computer in a book” within the 1980s. Apple’s first attempt was the Macintosh Portable in 1989, which weighed 16 pounds and cost $6,500. The iPad arrived in 2010, 27 years late. He guessed voice recognition was about a decade away. Siri launched in 2011, nearly 30 years later. The vision was right every time. The clock was wrong every time. Apple was doing about $1 billion a year in revenue when Jobs gave this talk, with under 5,000 employees. Today it’s worth $3.7 trillion.

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@anshitasaini_ This is the correct direction for EdTech, but still is missing a key aspect of learning... visual explanations along with more personalization. Check out what we're building at VideoTutor. We can generate instant video explanations for any problem! x.com/VideoTutor_io/…

study mode in chatgpt is now rolling out to all free, plus, pro, and teams users! 📚🚀 this has been in the works for a while and i’m so excited we’re getting it out to the world today 🌎 i’ve always felt strongly about making education more accessible and intentional. with access to so much knowledge, it’s easy to rapidly consume information without actually learning and i found that study mode helped bring that intention back for me. whether or not you’re a student, if you’ve ever used chatgpt to really try and understand something, give it a shot - i’d love to hear what you think! 😁

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New post: Powers of 3 + √2 johndcook.com/blog/2025/07/1…

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Which one of the options is equivalent to the definite multiple integral below?

@ChetuyaGamma If you want visual explanations for any math concepts you're stuck on, check out VideoTutor. You can create videos on the spot to explain any topic!

A very beautiful proof of the Addition Formulas for Sines and Cosines using Euler's formula. #math

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Normal distribution Formula and Graph.

Hey Shahin, We're VideoTutor, a startup team of recent grads, dropouts, and students from Stanford, Google, and SJSU. Recently, we launched our EdTech platform and have had over 30,000 signup users in the first 20 days and have already received over 10 million in term sheet offers from top VCs and even from notable entrepreneurs. We are creating an AI personal tutor for everyone. Imagine you could generate a custom Khan Academy video for any question you have and are able to ask questions about it in real time. The future of education is about personalization. We would love to discuss more about what we are building. Let me know if we can have a quick chat sometime this week, or anytime that works for you. Best, The VideoTutor Team

Was asked as part of a dinner, which books shaped my thinking about "deep tech" - Radio Frequency Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi - Fundamentals of Microfabrication by Marc Madou - Analysis and Design of Analog ICs by Gray and Meyer - Digital Integrated Circuits by Jan Rabaey - Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday and Resnick These not only shaped my thinking - they also helped me pass my quals and make stuff. If you're not learning the basics, you're just getting entertained.

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This beautiful Math Coincidence Still amazed me 🥰👌 #sharingisthenewlearning

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Hey Minqi, We're a startup team from Stanford, Google, and SJSU. Recently, we launched our EdTech platform and have had over 30,000 signup users in the first 20 days and have already received over 10 million in term sheet offers from top VCs and even from notable entrepreneurs. We are creating an AI personal tutor for everyone. Imagine you could generate a custom Khan Academy video for any question you have and are able to ask questions about it in real time. We know you're a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and would love to talk about how we are trying to simulate real tutoring explanations and how that transfers to real students understanding concepts. Let me know if we can have a quick chat sometime this week, or anytime that works for you. Best, The VideoTutor Team

You may not like it, but this is what a world-class AI + hardware team looks like.

Hey Ryan, We're a startup team from Stanford, Google, and SJSU. Recently, we launched our EdTech platform and have had over 30,000 signup users in the first 20 days and have already received over 10 million in term sheet offers from top VCs and even from notable entrepreneurs. We are creating an AI personal tutor for everyone. Imagine you could generate a custom Khan Academy video for any question you have and are able to ask questions about it in real time. We know you're a Founding Engineer at Bespoke Labs and would love to talk about how to build reliable datasets to keep AI outputs accurate for student users. Let me know if we can have a quick chat sometime this week, or anytime that works for you. Best, The VideoTutor Team

As part of the OpenThoughts3 effort, we trained and evaluated over 1000 models. @MercatJean has done a fantastic analysis using the database of evals from these experiments.

Hey Andy, We're a startup team from Stanford, Google, and SJSU. Recently, we launched our EdTech platform and have had over 30,000 signup users in the first 20 days and have already received over 10 million in term sheet offers from top VCs and even from notable entrepreneurs. We are creating an AI personal tutor for everyone. Imagine you could generate a custom Khan Academy video for any question you have and are able to ask questions about it in real time. We know you're an Engineering / Researcher at Anthropic and would love to talk with you about the social impacts of AI, especially when it comes to the future of education. Let me know if we can have a quick chat sometime this week, or anytime that works for you. Best, The VideoTutor Team

Anthropic's hosting a social in London in early August for quants & quant engineers interested in a career jump! Especially engineers: if you spend all day optimizing trading system performance, we are excited to chat to you. gem.com/form?formID=3d…

Hey Hieu, We're a startup team from Stanford, Google, and SJSU. Recently, we launched our EdTech platform and have had over 30,000 signup users in the first 20 days and have already received over 10 million in term sheet offers from top VCs and even from notable entrepreneurs. We are creating an AI personal tutor for everyone. Imagine you could generate a custom Khan Academy video for any question you have and are able to ask questions about it in real time. We know you work on AI at X and would love to talk with you about what we're building. Let me know if we can have a quick chat sometime this week, or anytime that works for you. Best, The VideoTutor Team

Test-time compute (self-improve based on a defined target score). arxiv.org/abs/1611.09940 We did it before it was cool (ICLR reject, workshop accept, 2.2K citations).

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