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STEM can only be taught visually. That’s why Udemy, Coursera, and Khan Academy are ultimately video libraries.

Khan Academy thumbnail introducing limits with a graph approaching a point.

3Blue1Brown vector lesson showing a column vector on a coordinate grid.

A colorful three-dimensional surface illustrating gradients and partial derivatives.

Professor Leonard calculus thumbnail showing three derivative rules.

Motion in one dimension lesson thumbnail with an illustrated presenter and trajectory.

An agent-based epidemic simulation showing susceptible, infectious, and recovered states.

A three-dimensional cutaway animation explaining how a CPU works.

An animated code structure illustrating why deeply nested code is hard to read.

Khan Academy thumbnail asking about variables, expressions, and equations.

Contrasting geometric visualizations used to explain general relativity.

A three-dimensional molecular animation of DNA replication.

A coordinate grid bending to visualize linear transformations.

Veritasium thumbnail illustrating Einstein's mass-energy equation with sugar.

A detailed three-dimensional cell model used to explain the cell cycle.

Euler’s formula visualized with rotations around three spatial axes.

A glowing route through a graph visualizing the A-star pathfinding algorithm.

A particle-cloud visualization of what atoms look like.

An atom emitting a color-coded electromagnetic wave.

freeCodeCamp JavaScript in three hours course thumbnail.

Crash Course Biology preview thumbnail with illustrated organisms.

3Blue1Brown neural network visualization with connected layers.

A binomial distribution explained with a formula, histogram, and basketball simulation.

Vector and scalar physics diagram with force, electric field, momentum, and velocity.

A particle collision simulation introducing computer graphics.

A loaded beam with plotted shear-force and bending-moment diagrams.

Kurzgesagt animation showing a colorful cell against the Earth.

The Map of Mathematics thumbnail charting branches of mathematics.

Zach Star thumbnail asking how much mathematics engineers use.

Real Engineering thumbnail about the engineering of the GE9X jet engine.

The AI tutor, then, is the one that can generate these videos, either in real time or asynchronously.

These AI-generated videos can’t be slop. They have to be factually correct.

I took a leave of absence from my PhD at Princeton to start Academa and began researching the software needed to build this. That research spans computer graphics, visual layout, modeling students, and modeling great teachers.

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