Campus, the online two-year college backed by Sam Altman and Shaquille O’Neal, has acquired Sizzle AI, a learning app founded by former Meta executive Jerome Pesenti.
The move brings one of the industry’s leading artificial intelligence engineers into Campus as its new chief technology officer and marks a major step in the company’s plan to integrate AI across its education model.
Founded by Pesenti after serving as Meta’s vice president of artificial intelligence, Sizzle AI uses conversational tools to help students learn through interactive problem-solving.
The app has reached more than 1.7 million users and is designed to make complex subjects easier to understand through adaptive feedback and real-time explanations.
“Acquiring Sizzle accelerates our engineering roadmap by two to three years—they’ve built the best AI team in education and their infrastructure is so far ahead of anyone else—it’s super exciting,” said Tade Oyerinde, founder and chancellor of Campus. “Campus students already learn from the best professors from the top schools in the country. Now, after class ends, they’ll also have access to a learning platform that actually understands what they know and adapts to help them achieve mastery faster than anything on the market today.”
Pesenti said the partnership aligns closely with his mission to make education more accessible through technology. “Campus’s mission to make a high-quality college education accessible and affordable to everyone aligns perfectly with my own,” he said.
Campus offers live, online associate degree programs in business administration and information technology, along with an applied AI concentration that exposes students to emerging technologies shaping the modern workforce.
The company said the acquisition will enhance its ability to personalize learning by combining live instruction with Sizzle’s AI infrastructure, creating individualized learning paths and real-time progress tracking for students.
Campus is backed by investors including Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Bloomberg Beta, and Sam Altman. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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