An AI teacher bolted onto a tuition business isn't the same as an AI-native one
90+ My Tuition App just raised money to build an AI Teacher Programme on top of five lakh students it won the old way, and that order is the real story.
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Daily, by Achal with Claude
Notes
One short note a day on what moved in Indian AI, product and edtech, and what it actually means for someone building. Quick takes, published as they land. The longer, more considered pieces live in Reflections.
A university caught AI cheating twice and only asked why the second time
VNSGU fined students for using ChatGPT and Gemini in exams, then chose counselling over punishment for the next 400, and neither response touches the real problem: the exam.
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Physical centres aren't losing to AI. They're selling what AI hasn't earned yet
India's edtech market corrected from a 22 billion dollar bubble to a real 3 billion dollar one, and the winners built trust with buildings, not just models.
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Agents can build the app now. Someone still has to know when they're wrong
Emergent's new unicorn valuation is a bet on AI agents replacing code, but it doesn't touch the actual bottleneck: product judgment.
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Money before users is still a bet, even when the product is good
ProLearn just raised Rs 30 crore to build an AI learning companion before it has a single paying student, and that order of operations is the whole story.
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