Conventional wisdom says AI will replace people. I believe the opposite.
Andrew Ng · Founder & CEO
AI is creating unprecedented opportunities for everyone. LearnVector helps people build skills so every person can take part.
Join our team
$100M investment from Coursera
Our mission
To accelerate human development.
AI will be the greatest accelerator of human development — if we do it right.
The challenge
For most of history, great teaching has been scarce.
Rationed by cost, geography, and time. We have always known that one person with a good teacher learns more — and faster — than the same person in a classroom of two hundred. We built the classrooms anyway, because we couldn't give each person their own tutor. That was not a limitation of learning. It was a limitation of economics.
Despite enormous progress in AI, we still have not changed how we learn. Learning experiences are still one‑to‑many.
And we know that chatbots without guardrails harm learning. A chatbot can give you an answer, but an answer is not an education. Cognitive offloading means you end up learning less. And, you cannot always trust what a chatbot tells you.
Meanwhile the demand for trustworthy learning — knowing that what you learn is accurate, important, and relevant — has never been higher.
The result
Three things change.
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The model
One‑to‑many One‑to‑one
A personal learning experience for everyone.
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The experience
Labor Love
Learning that's engaging and fun — that you want to do.
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The habit
Occasional Daily
Learning that feels like an instinct, not a chore.
What we're building
A trustworthy guide for learning.
A chatbot can give you an answer, then it moves on. We're building a one‑to‑one learning experience that…
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Plans a path with you
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Adapts to how you learn
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Patiently stays with you until you've mastered new skills
We're heads‑down building, and will have products to show by early 2027.
A message from Andrew
Why I'm doing this.
Fifteen years ago, Coursera and online courses changed education. It worked better than almost anyone expected, expanding access by opening up where you can learn. But how you learn remains largely the same as it has for centuries: it is one-size-fits-all courses, taught the same way to each person who shows up.
We now have an opportunity to change how learning happens. With advances in AI, we can now build a custom learning guide for each person. We will turn learning from one‑to‑many to one‑to‑one. I'm starting LearnVector to invent this next generation of learning. We are starting with an investment from Coursera, and plan to collaborate closely with Coursera and Udemy.
Good learning needs much more than just a chatbot. Research shows that chatbots without guardrails harm learning. They help complete tasks and enable students to do better on homework. But cognitive offloading to a chatbot results in them being less skilled.
In contrast, LearnVector will plan a path with you, adapt to how you learn, and patiently stay with you until you've mastered new skills.
One thing has not changed in all this time. People want learning they can trust: material that is accurate, relevant, and worth the effort you put into it. Anything less wastes the most valuable thing a learner has: time. Coursera has a trusted library of materials from authoritative sources. LearnVector plans to work with Coursera to bring this trustworthy learning to everyone. I'm grateful to Greg Hart and the entire Coursera team for supporting LearnVector.
I look forward to working with our talented team to change how we learn, and accelerate human development.
Andrew Ng
Founder & CEO, LearnVector
From Coursera
Our strategic investment in LearnVector has the potential to be a force multiplier for our growth. Andrew's unmatched AI expertise pairs his agentic AI with our platform and assets that turn learning into validated mastery — a clear competitive advantage that we believe can accelerate our business and expand the impact we deliver for individuals and enterprises around the world.
Read Coursera's announcement here.
In brief
The facts.
What LearnVector is
A new AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences. Founded in 2026.
Founder & CEO
Andrew Ng — Co‑founder, Coursera and Google Brain. Founder, DeepLearning.AI. Stanford Computer Science Adjunct Faculty.
Backing
A $100 million investment from Coursera.
Where we are
Mountain View, California, on‑site.
What's next
We're building and will have something to show by early 2027.
Contact
hello@learnvector.ai
Careers
We're hiring.
We're a small, fast-moving team in Mountain View, California, working on‑site. We have a short list of open roles for experienced builders passionate about AI and human development.
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AI Engineer
Build the agentic systems at the core of the product. It will understand learners, plan a path with them to gain valuable skills, and work step-by-step untli they get there.
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Learning Engineer
Apply expertise in teaching to build engaging products that result in the learner developing new skills. You will be building products informed by pedagogy.
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Learning Scientist
Invent new ways to teach that take advantage of agentic AI, and apply rigorous measurement to ensure users are developing new skills and retaining them.
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Software Engineer, Full‑stack
Build our software product end to end. You'll make key architecture and implementation decisions to enable us to serve unique, AI-enabled learning experiences at scale.
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Operations Specialist
Lead office operations and administration to ensure our team is well supported and can move fast and focus on their work inventing and building products to serve learners.