Joe Liemandt
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open Joe Liemandt: AI will become good enough to handle the earliest stage of bootstrapping young children (around age 4) into reading, a task current AI tutors still can't do.
“We think we need another 18 months before AIs can do that.”
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open Joe Liemandt: The roughly $10,000-per-student annual AI compute cost for Alpha's vision-model screen monitoring will fall by about a factor of 10, moving toward on-device processing.
“That'll come down a factor of 10... We're going to get it down to on device.”
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open Joe Liemandt: Several new Timeback-platform-based school formats beyond Alpha itself (Texas Sports Academy, a gifted/talented school, a Montessori school, a wilderness school) will roll out broadly.
“Next year in 2026, you're going to see all these other models beyond just Alpha that roll out based on this time back software.”
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open Joe Liemandt: A packaged 'motivation plus learning' product, built with some of the world's best video game designers and top influencers, will be released to help motivate students Alpha doesn't directly control.
“We have some of the world's best video game designers that that's going to be released in 2026.”
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open Joe Liemandt: Alpha will build 10,000 schools over the remaining course of Liemandt's involvement in education.
“I got 20 years, so we're going to build 10,000 schools, you know, and that's going to be great and I love it.”
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