Know Labs - looking to "change the future of education by making it more accessible and less expensive"

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Know Labs is the Silicon Valley start-up behind the Thrun/Norvig/Stanford artificial intelligence course:

"We're a Silicon Valley-based startup looking to change the future of education by making it more accessible and less expensive. We provide a high-quality online learning experience using interactive videos, intelligent software, mobile apps, and the social web.  Our initial launch is online this fall: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in partnership with the Stanford University School of Engineering. The class is open to everyone at ai-class.com and is run by the technology we are developing for a larger site: know it."

What interests me is whether Know Labs was already involved (or even there?) when the AI course was originally advertised, or whether the scale of the response either led to the formation of the start-up, or brought it into involvement with Stanford.

See also:

• Over 200,000 people have signed up for the three free Stanford University online courses
• Questions about the AI course

Comments

[Neil Smith]

The knowlabs.com domain was created on May 20th this year and the registrant is Sebastian Thrun. Looks like the course is being used to promote the start up.

[Seb Schmoller]

Is that a bad thing?

[Greg Linden]

Apparently, David Stavens, a recent PhD graduate of Stanford, is the CEO of Know Labs:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidstavens

Looks like a very small, very new startup.