During BUILD 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used part of his opening keynote to highlight a multi-faceted partnership to offer aspects of artificial intelligence to K-12 students in the US.
While students using AI isn’t an entirely new concept, Microsoft is hoping that with help from Khan Academy it could help the learning institute provide improvement tutorial opportunities at an affordable scale.
According to Microsoft, Khan Academy will leverage the company’s updated Azure OpenAI Service which will grant them access to the newly introduced Phi-3 family of Small Language Models developed by Microsoft.
In turn, Microsoft will now be able to leverage Khan Academy’s learning solutions and have access to build them into the Copilot models as well as making them available for users of Teams for Education.
As part of the new partnership, Khan Academy will also provide Microsoft with continual feedback as well as benchmarking data to help evaluate uptimes and general cloud performance.
Similar to Microsoft’s goal of delivering on-device AI experiences with its new Surface hardware, Khan Academy is also looking forward to eventually providing locally based SLM experiences to resource-constrained schools outside of its U.S. audiences.
