{"id":291957,"date":"2025-10-10T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:45:15","slug":"sam-altman-backed-college-startup-taps-former-meta-ai-head-as-cto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291957\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman-backed college startup taps former Meta AI head as CTO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Campus<\/p>\n

Campus, a college startup backed by Sam Altman<\/a>, has hired Meta<\/a>‘s former AI Vice President Jerome Pesenti as its technology head, the company announced Friday.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, Campus will buy Pesenti’s artificial intelligence<\/a> learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount and integrate its personalized AI-generated educational content already used by 1.7 million people.<\/p>\n

The acquisition advances the company’s “roadmap” by two to three years and helps the platform cater learning toward individual student needs, said Tade Oyerinde, Campus founder and chancellor.<\/p>\n

“This is a game changer,” he told CNBC.<\/p>\n

Campus was founded to disrupt the community college system by “maximizing access to world-class education,” according to its website. It offers accredited associate degrees taught by adjunct professors from the likes of Stanford, Princeton and New York University.<\/p>\n

The platform has over 3,000 enrolled students, charges $7,320 per academic year and accepts Pell Grants, according to its website<\/a>. It also provides attendees with a laptop, mobile Wi-Fi pack, personal success coach and 24\/7 tutoring access. Professors make upwards of $8,000 per course.<\/p>\n

Campus has raised over $100 million from the likes of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, General Catalyst, NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, venture capitalist and Palantir<\/a> co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Figma<\/a> CEO Dylan Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campus, a college startup backed by Sam Altman, has hired Meta‘s former AI Vice President Jerome Pesenti as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,11732,81,3722,69382,3747,26768,16465,923,1968,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-291957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-breaking-news-technology","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-enterprise","13":"tag-figma-inc","14":"tag-meta-platforms-inc","15":"tag-palantir-technologies-inc","16":"tag-peter-thiel","17":"tag-sam-altman","18":"tag-start-up","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115349941371082596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}