Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. <\/p>\n
Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/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":"Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,2158,161,49,48,10355,27762,15850,19085,16961,2747,11838,61],"class_list":["post-202556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-enterprise","tag-figma-inc","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-palantir-technologies-inc","tag-peter-thiel","tag-sam-altman","tag-start-up","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}