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":214163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,5681,122,11718,39458,2195,1539,1265,7047,2795,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-214162","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-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-breaking-news-technology","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-enterprise","14":"tag-figma-inc","15":"tag-meta-platforms-inc","16":"tag-palantir-technologies-inc","17":"tag-peter-thiel","18":"tag-sam-altman","19":"tag-start-up","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}