ChatGPT now ready to help prep for IIT

India’s edtech firms as well as traditional coaching centres may have some serious competition coming from the unstoppable rise of artificial intelligence, as Big Tech pushes to showcase Al as a formidable study assistant for students preparing for coveted jobs and top engineering colleges.

- Shouvik Das

OpenAl, the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence startup, on Tuesday launched a ‘study mode’ on its ubiquitous generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT. With a focus on competitive examinations including India’s most popular ones such as engineering and medical entrance tests, the company agreed that ChatGPT’s study mode will likely overlap with India’s education-tech startups—thereby giving it access toa large, potentially monetizable base of students in the country.