PhysicsWallah, a leading edtech company, has announced its new innovative tool Alakh AI. This AI platform is specially designed for students as a personal assistant. It will enhance student’s learning experience and interest in learning new things.
PhysicsWallah offers students a wide range of courses from class 6 to class 12. It also provides courses for NEET and JEE-preparing students. This tech company emerged as a unicorn in June last year after raising $ 100 million in a Series A Funding Round.
What is Alakh AI?
Alakh AI is more than just another tutoring tool, it is designed as a study companion for students that can assist in both academic and non-academic aspects. This tool will offer personalized study plans, and motivational support, and even assist them in solving academic questions and answers.
One of the good features of Alakh AI is its generative capabilities. It is trained on PhysicsWallah’s study materials and style, which makes this AI tool more adaptive and personalized.
Alakh AI covers a global audience by offering courses in multiple languages. It not only enhances the company’s accessibility but also reduces the operational costs of the company.
This tool marks a significant milestone in the tech industry. Alakh AI offers a comprehensive and personalized experience for students that goes beyond traditional educational boundaries.
In less than 2 months, Alakh AI made a record of gaining more than 1.5 million users. The unicorn is set to make more than INR 2,000 Cr in revenue in FY24.
Flagship event, Vishwas Diwas
PhysicsWallah introduced many groundbreaking tools in its flagship event, Vishwas Diwas. The main theme behind this edtech company is ‘Padhai Ka Naya Andaaz (A New Era in Education)’, embracing its theme the company unveiled many host of innovations that promise to make education more personalized and engaging.
Physics Wallah
It was founded in 2016 by Alakh Pandey as a YouTube channel for students who are preparing for competitive exams. Later it became full full-fledged edtech startup by offering a wide range of courses. In the last few years, this company has been on an expansion spree.
Prateek Maheshwari joined as co-founder of PhysicsWallah in 2020. Last month, the co-founder Prateek Maheswari told Inc42 that it expects more than INR 2000 Cr in revenue in the upcoming financial year 2023-2024. She also told the company had already achieved INR 2000Cr revenue in January 2024.
Maheswari did not reveal the actual profit of PhysicsWallah, she said PW’s adjusted EBITDA will be around 80 Cr in FY24, from INR 119.6 Cr in FY23. PhysicsWallah entered a unicorn club by acquiring a $100 Million fund from Westbridge and GSV Ventures. Since then it has been expanding its offerings by making offline space for students and acquiring multiple startups and companies.
It also offers programs for postgraduates. It also runs an upskilling platform named PW Upskills for students. Earlier this month, PW ventured into offline education by offering classes for primary school students by its name PW Gurukulam School.
It also announced an INR 100 Cr investment for strengthening its UPSC course offering Platform UPSC vertical and INR 120 Cr for PW Skills.
The main competitors for PhysicsWallah are Byjus, Vedantu, Unacademy, and Allen. The main thing that differentiates PhysicsWallah and others is its personalized and adaptive learning experience offering for its students.
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AI educational suites offered by PhysicsWallah
AI Guru (Personalised Tutor) – It is a 24/7 personal AI tutor and assistant. It is designed to make its student’s learning experience unique and personal. It will help students in clearing doubts in text, image, and speech modes.
NCERT Pitara – By leveraging the power of GenAI, it generates questions from various NCERT books. It offers questions in various formats like single-choice questions, multiple-choice questions, and fill-in-the-blanks.
Sahayak – It offers a personalized experience for students by providing adaptive practices, revision, and backlog clearance. It also offers custom content recommendations for students like videos and practices questions.
Community Learning – This platform offers collaborative learning with batch-specific learning groups for its students. There is one live practice session named ‘Battleground’, by which students can practice questions and answers with their favorite teachers and batchmates.
Increased Accessibility with Low Data mode – PhysicsWallah’s latest feature consumes as much as 80-90% less data. By this students can watch a large number of videos in their existing data package.
Focused Learning with ‘LearnOS Tapasya Mode’ – It is an Android mobile launcher designed to minimize students’ online distractions. Its TapasyaMode can block distracting apps for the chosen duration and enables focused study sessions by keeping away from distracting apps.