{"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":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/108210499-17600961141760096110-42031326848-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"Campus founder Tade Oyerinde on acquisition of Sizzle AI, future of AI and higher education\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Campus, a college startup backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/23\/sam-altman-openais-850-billion-in-planned-buildouts-bubble-concern.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman<\/a>, has hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a>&#8216;s former AI Vice President Jerome Pesenti as its technology head, the company announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, Campus will buy Pesenti&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/ai-effect\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>The acquisition advances the company&#8217;s &#8220;roadmap&#8221; by two to three years and helps the platform cater learning toward individual student needs, said Tade Oyerinde, Campus founder and chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a game changer,&#8221; he told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Campus was founded to disrupt the community college system by &#8220;maximizing access to world-class education,&#8221; 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<p>The platform has over 3,000 enrolled students, charges $7,320 per academic year and accepts Pell Grants, <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.edu\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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<p>Campus has raised over $100 million from the likes of Peter Thiel&#8217;s Founders Fund, General Catalyst, NBA star Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, venture capitalist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/PLTR\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palantir<\/a> co-founder Joe Lonsdale and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FIG\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Figma<\/a> CEO Dylan Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campus, a college startup backed by Sam Altman, has hired Meta&#8216;s former AI Vice President Jerome Pesenti as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,11732,81,3722,69382,3747,26768,16465,923,1968,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-291957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-enterprise","tag-figma-inc","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-palantir-technologies-inc","tag-peter-thiel","tag-sam-altman","tag-start-up","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","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}]}}