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Bansal and Ranjan Launch Fermi.ai, a Singapore-Based AI Tutor for High-School STEM

The free public beta coaches students through handwritten, step-by-step problem solving to build mastery, citing early gains from a 79-student pilot.

Overview

  • Headquartered in Singapore with subsidiaries in the United States and India, Fermi.ai launches for high-school math, physics and chemistry.
  • The platform guides reasoning instead of giving answers, using a stylus-first canvas, a curriculum concept graph with an exam-aligned question bank, and analytics for educators.
  • Pilots with 79 students and over 15,000 concept tests reported mastery gains for low starters averaging +4.68 points, overall gains of +2.6 points, and a 21% drop in hint reliance.
  • Business Today reports abandonment rates of 13–15% in pilots across Bengaluru, North India and Silicon Valley, with the system running fully on AI across multiple language models.
  • Fermi.ai is available as a free public beta with a small 10-member tech team, Meraki Labs backing, no external funding to date, an expected subscription model, and a plan to add subjects such as biology for NEET and other concept courses.