Miyagi: Turn YouTube Binge-Watching into Real Learning with AI, Like 3Blue1Brown!

Miyagi transforms YouTube videos into interactive AI-powered courses with quizzes and feedback, offering personalized learning and community features, partnering with creators for revenue sharing.

Launch HN: Miyagi - Interactive Courses from YouTube Videos

Core Idea

• Miyagi (YC W25) transforms educational YouTube videos into interactive courses using AI.
• Turns passive watching into active learning through quizzes, practice questions, and real-time feedback.

How it Works

• Uses LLMs to automatically generate quizzes, practice questions, and real-time feedback.
• Pipeline: video/resource -> transcript/text -> chunks -> summary and question -> answers to questions.

Key Features & Benefits

• Interactive courses resembling MOOCs but more interactive.
• Easy to ask questions and receive custom feedback.
• Community building aspect.
• Personalized features augmenting standard resources.
• No login required for most courses.

Current Status

• Launched three months ago.
• 400+ courses available.
• Partnerships with businesses and creators.
• Popular courses include 3Blue1Brown’s linear algebra, botany course, and YC's How to Start a Startup series.

Founders & Background

• Founded by Tyrone and Guang (Miyagi Labs).
• Met at MIT as CS majors.
• Passionate about education and have experience as teachers in various subjects.

Key Quotes

• "YouTube has incredible content for learning pretty much anything, but it’s buried in a lot of distractions. Also, passively watching videos is far less effective than taking notes, asking questions, and doing practice problems."
• "We’re basically betting that AI can hugely improve education, but that students still want to learn from their favorite creators and want baseline shared resources for standard topics that are then augmented with personalized features."

Call to Action

• Try Miyagi at https://miyagilabs.ai
• Provide feedback on desired videos/resources and missing features in learning tools.
• Suggest creators or educators for collaboration.

Interesting Points from Discussion

• Content Creation Challenges Solved: Solves content creation challenges but introduces pedagogy, licensing, and ads challenges.
• Bloom's 2-Sigma Problem: Acknowledges the effectiveness of 1:1 tutoring compared to conventional methods.
• Revenue Sharing: Does revenue sharing with content creators, with creators getting the majority of revenue.
• Opt-Out for Creators: Creators can opt out if they don't want their videos on the site.
• Future Plans: Exploring multi-modal analysis (interpreting video content visually), custom tooling for subjects like poker and chess, and learning paths for subjects.
• Concerns: Addresses concerns about the quality of generated exercises and explanations and how to ensure correctness