Teachers and students can now benefit from Merlyn Mind’s new suite of large language models (LLMs). This open-source platform was specifically designed for the education sector and is powered by AI. It is aimed at providing an enhanced learning experience through user-selected curricula.
The education-focused generative AI platform is accessible via Merlyn’s voice assistant. It enables teachers to quickly and easily create content such as slides, lesson plans, and assessments that are tailored to their curriculum and aligned content. The platform can also be used to generate quizzes and classroom activities based on the ongoing conversation.
Merlyn Mind’s LLMs are smaller and more efficient than traditional generalist models. They vary from six billion to 40 billion parameters, while mainstream general-purpose models typically have over 175 billion. The company’s LLMs are trained on educational content chosen by users or institutions, without accessing the broader internet.
The platform ensures accuracy by submitting each response to an alternate language model for verification. In addition, the primary model is fine-tuned so that when it cannot produce a high-quality response, it admits the failure rather than generating a false reaction.
Satya Nitta, Co-founder & CEO of Merlyn Mind, said: “As education institutions, school leaders and teachers make thoughtful strategic choices on the content and curriculum they use to help students best, Merlyn’s AI platform is built for this reality with a solution that draws from the school’s chosen corpora to overcome hallucinations and inaccuracies with a generative AI experience.”
Merlyn Mind believes that AI can greatly help teachers and students in the classroom by automating teacher workflows, generating curriculum-aligned content, and engaging students. Its new suite of LLMs is an important step forward in making this a reality, and is sure to have a positive impact on the way teachers and students learn in the classroom.
