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Meet the professor: Google’s Ted Souder from Building an AI-First Organization
Ted Souder is back to teach our Building an AI-First Organization workshop. Get to know him a little better (and why we keep bringing him back for more).

What is Prompting for AI? The Beginner's Guide to AI Prompt Writing
What is prompting? In this beginner's guide to instructing AI models like ChatGPT through written prompts, you'll earn the basics of prompting for natural AI conversations.

GPT-4o: What’s cool, what’s hype, and what happens next
Our in-house AI expert talks all things GPT-4o and what it means for the future — ours and AI's.

Try these 3 things before giving up on AI
In this interview, Jeremy Utley exposes the confirmation biases that cause us to bounce off AI – and how you can get a result that will make it stick.

How we built a generative AI bot
By summer 2023, we were convinced we needed to use AI to improve our student experience. From August to October, we designed, built, and prototyped an AI course tutor called ProfAI. In today's post, we'll walk you through how we did it.

Our hot take on Google Gemini
On Wednesday, Google announced its long (long, long)-awaited AI product, Gemini. We dug in to understand whether Gemini lives up to the hype, what it signals for OpenAI and Microsoft, and what you can use it for right now.

Which skills matter? Employees and L&D leaders don’t always agree [research]
Which skills matter in the modern workplace – to get promoted, to get ahead, to impact the business? It turns out that employees and learning leaders don’t always agree.
We recently surveyed 10,000 students and 250 learning leaders on the skills that are their biggest priority in 2023.

Want to build the next Airbnb? 4 steps to get started
Airbnb changed the way we travel without purchasing any hotels. Uber made it easier to get around without amassing their own fleet. And DoorDash took care of breakfast without cracking a single egg.
The common thread between these companies is that they’re platform businesses. Rather than selling products directly, they’re providing a platform that conveniently connects sellers and buyers.
How do you follow in their footsteps? Here are four steps that can help you build a platform of your own.