Co -founders who sold their last startup anchor Spotify are launching their next project: OboeAn educational application powered by artificial intelligence, which allows everyone to create light, flexible learning courses on almost every topic he chose, simply by introducing hints.
These courses can include various industries, including topics such as science, history, foreign language, news, pop culture, preparation for life changes and many others. During the premiere of Ovese – a name inspired by the Japanese root word It means “learning” – he will offer nine different courses formats. Allow users to study in the preferred way, co -founder Nir Zicherman TechCrunch was explained.
Zicherman founded the company with co -founder Anchor Michael Mignano After leaving Spotify in October 2023 and taking a short charging period. Zicherman said that he inspired him to work on the AI educational product after working on the scaling of Audiobooks Spotify, which made it easier for people to gain access to high quality and educational content, because it was packed in their musical subscription.
Unlike AI chatbots, you don't have to get involved in conversations and back to study. Instead, you can choose text and visualizations, audio courses, games, interactive tests and many others.
For those who want to study on travel, Ovens offers two audio formats. One is more like listening to a university -style lecture, while the other is similar to the Google podcast podcast, because it contains two hosts talking about this.
“True magic here comes from the internal architecture, which we built, which I described as a complex, multi -agin architecture, which we built from scratch, which each part is organized in parallel when generating a course,” says Zicherman.
“The challenge is how you create courses that are both of high quality, completely personalized in relation to what the user wants to see, and also to generate very quickly? It all happens in a few seconds,” he says.
“We have agents who are in parallel responsible for everything, from the development of course architecture to developing and verifying the basic materials that are taught, writing a script to the podcast, attracting real images from the Internet-not images generated by AI, but real images and visualization in reading formats we offer”-added.
Some agents indifferent to control the content to ensure that the courses are accurate, high quality and personalized to what the user wants to learn.
The courses are to be light, addictive and fun. In addition, the OBODE team is working on a recommendation engine that will help you constantly delve into the subject if you prefer. This leaves the user whether they want to get knowledge on a surface level on a new topic, or want to get more deeply.
This, in combination with the variety of formats, will help to speak to a wider audience, believe that the band.
“For me, education evokes images of more formal academic environments and types of order curricula, to which students are accustomed as they grow up,” says Zicherman Techcrunch. “But the truth is that we are all students for life … We spend so much time on the Internet nowadays, trying to better understand things, but the truth is that the internet has been built to attract our attention, not teach.”
“We are very excited about building a platform, which is to be a comprehensive store that serves this internal desire for knowledge that exists in every person,” he said.
During the premiere, users can consume any course created by others for free and can create a maximum of five free courses per month. Then there are two paid levels: OJEE Plus, which offers 30 additional courses for USD 15 per month, and NIEWE PRO, which offers 100 courses for USD 40 per month.
The service will first be available in network (and mobile network), but on the way there are native applications for iOS and Android.
Oveh is a full -time team, including Zicherman. Mignano remains a full -time partner at VC LightSpeed, but he sits on the board of Oboe and divides the title of co -founder.
The 4 million dollars startup round was run by Eaniac Ventures, a VC company, which was run by Anchor grain. The round also includes investments with Haymstack, Capial Capital, Homebrew, offline ventures, Scott Belsky, Kayvon Beykpour, Nikita Bier, Tim Ferriss and Matt Lieber.
