Khanmigo is now available to the public (US only)| Personalized AI tutor & teaching assistant

Hi everyone, Sal Khan here, and I'm excited to announce that Khan Migo, our generative AI-powered tutor on Khan Academy, is now generally available! This is especially powerful as we go into back to school. If you have Khan Migo, your student has it on their Khan Academy account, and they are going to be fully supported. They can ask questions, not just on their Khan Academy work, but about anything that they see in their schoolwork.

It will not cheat; it will not do their homework for them, but it will provide support like a great tutor would. It goes beyond what a traditional tutor would do. My background's in computer science, and using this with my own kids, I found it to be a better programming tutor than I can be. It also does things like academic coaching. It can actually give feedback on students' college essays. It can simulate historical characters, and it can simulate literary characters.

It can do creative exercises with the student where they could write a story together, and your student could even talk to the characters in the story. Now, is it not for profit? Our mission is free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. But we are having to charge for Khan Migo; it is nine dollars a month. We have to charge that because the computation costs of generative AI are actually quite expensive.

And this is an experience I want to be very clear about—it's built off of the cutting-edge AI technology; we're not skimping on any dimension of quality. I think people are surprised by the quality of the math and how much we've been able to reduce some of the rough spots that generative AI has historically had. The guard rails that we've put in not only ensure that it does not cheat, but you, as a parent, can monitor what's going on.

You can be actively notified if anything suspicious is going on. So, if you want to help support your student this coming school year in their academics and beyond, think about getting Khan Migo for them. It actually offers step-by-step instructions, but not to the point where it gives the answers to the student. Instead, it guides them enough where, if the student reads and goes along with it, it actually helps them achieve the answer without giving it to them.

It’s almost like your own little personal virtual assistant with you at all times. It gives them an ability to be self-sufficient in a way, so it’s a really great tool. I think Khan Academy is leading us through that path. Let's support the kids; let's manage it, let's monitor it, so that we can allow the educational world to look at how this can really impact education and how it can make it better.

Buy-in is so important. Student engagement is the key to education. If students are able to ask personalized questions and receive answers that are relevant to them, they're going to feel more empowered to do the work and feel inspired to try to learn these things that otherwise they might say, "What's the point?"