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Anant Agarwal

Former Chief Academic Officer & Former 2U & Founder of edX, edX (2U, Inc.)

Search every verified Anant Agarwal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Anant Agarwal, the founder of edX and a professor at MIT, discussed his new role as CEO of Grady, a company focused on AI-powered grading tools for education. In an interview, he described the technology as addressing the "timeliness problem" of feedback, noting that AI will "augment the teacher" rather than replace them. He also reflected on the early days of edX, which he co-founded with MIT and Harvard, and the platform's growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he noted that new registrations increased 15-fold in a six-week period. In a separate appearance, Agarwal discussed edX's response to the pandemic, including a partnership with Harvard and Schmidt Futures to create a free course on ventilator use that attracted nearly 200,000 learners within two weeks of its launch. He also spoke about the broader shift to online learning, stating that "education is a human right" and that the pandemic had accelerated the adoption of digital education tools.

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“I'm a big believer that the same thing should happen to AI, that I think AI should be open source. And you know, I think great AI developers, great engineers, I think should be insisting that they will only contribute if it's open source. ... Engineers and content developers are driving the AI revolution. I would say that uh, insist that your developments are open so that the world can benefit from it as opposed to o”

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