New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- Peeyush Ranjan, a former senior executive at Google and Airbnb and ex-chief technology officer of Flipkart, has teamed up with former Cure.fit co-founder Mukesh Bansal to bet that the next wave of AI use in edtech will be built not as an "answer machine" like ChatGPT, but as a coach that pushes students to solve problems on their own.

Fermi, the startup founded by tech duo, is positioning itself not just as a place for students to use AI for learning and test preparation, but also as a tool for teachers to track where a student's reasoning breaks down, flag weak areas, and step in earlier. For now, the startup's focus is the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) that selects students for top engineering schools in India....