MasterClass from any legend for any topic featuring Paul Graham, Elon Musk, Terence Tao, Andrej Karpathy, Morgan Housel, Bill Ackman and Marc Andreessen. Watch them share their screens and give you lectures on the topics of your choice.
I'm Arman. Excited to launch nFactorial AI - MasterClass from any legend for any topic aka Zoom calls with the world’s greatest minds as your personal AI tutors.
Big vision We set out to build the world’s biggest catalog of 100,000+ world-class masters (from Bruce Lee to Naval Ravikant) from every industry and every geography/language as your personal video-first AI tutors.
Key insight
At the moment, in many fields AI is worse than the top 1% of humans. Terence Tao is better than AI in math, Warren Buffett is better in investing, Scott Aaronson is better in computational complexity. The Lee Sedol moment did not yet happen in these fields. By embedding the thoughts of the top 1% of humans into its context, AI generates higher-quality output.
Current version We’re launching with 7 personal heroes of mine: Paul Graham teaching startups, Elon Musk teaching physics and first-principle thinking, Terence Tao teaching math, Andrej Karpathy teaching AI, Morgan Housel teaching personal money management, Bill Ackman teaching investing, Marc Andreessen teaching venture capital and personal productivity.
How to use the app? 1) Start a Zoom call with a legend. 2) Listen to their 5-min lecture with slides. 3) Ask them questions. 4) Ask to create a new lecture on any topic of your choice.
Product-founder fit A lot of my friends make fun of me for being overly fascinated with learning from the GOATs. In 2004, I built the biggest Bruce Lee website on the Russian Internet. In 2010-2014 as well as 2023-2024, I recorded 150+ 3-hour long podcasts with world-class founders, scientists and engineers. In 2013, I published 966 posters on Instagram with my favorite quotes from the world’s top performers. In 2014, we built an iOS habit tracking app where users could follow daily rituals of the world’s most effective people. In 2016, 1 year before Cameo, we launched a mobile marketplace for fans to get video greetings from their favorite celebrities.
It’s time to turn this lifelong fascination into a product useful for a billion people.
What’s new about what we built? - Live video call: screenshares by legends, see them “teach” with slides. - Create a video lecture on any topic. Preferably within the teacher’s domain expertise for better lecture quality. - Persona-grounded tutoring: each AI mentor is grounded in their public writing, talks, and known viewpoints, so PG sounds like PG, Karpathy reasons like Karpathy, etc. - We mimic not just the legends’ voice, mannerisms, facial expressions and vocabulary, but also their way of thinking. Reasoning based on their public writings: 3800+ posts, essays, books, interviews and blogs.
If you try it, tell us what felt magical and what felt wrong. We're here to answer any questions
As someone obsessed with learning from the best, this could seriously accelerate my growth. How do you ensure each AI mentor truly captures the legend’s unique thinking?
nFactorial AI is truly impressive! The ability to have live video calls with AI versions of legends like Paul Graham and Elon Musk offers an immersive and authentic learning experience.
We’ve translated the intro video into Hindi and shared it on Twitter to help more users discover this amazing platform. Watch the Hindi video here. If you want to reach a wider audience in more languages, try BlipCut — it makes translating and localizing super easy!
Looking forward to seeing how this evolves.
What an incredible concept—video calls with world-class tutors as personal mentors. Brilliant execution—congratulations to the team on this launch!
Mentorship featuring legends like Paul Graham, Elon Musk, and Terence Tao. Watch them share screens, break down ideas, and teach the topics you care about. It’s rare access to rare minds.
AI combines AI and education to personalize learning experiences. It helps students master skills faster through adaptive technology. Designed to make learning smarter, engaging, and more effective.
nFactorial AI launches today with a concept that’s worth noting: video calls featuring some of the world’s leading minds as personal tutors. The lineup, including figures like Paul Graham, Elon Musk, Terence Tao, and others, brings a notable level of expertise across diverse fields—from tech and entrepreneurship to mathematics and finance.
The idea of engaging directly with such prominent figures, watching them share their screens, and learning on topics of one’s choice is an interesting twist on personalized education. It breaks away from more passive learning formats, offering a potentially more dynamic way to access insights from those at the top of their respective domains.
While the practical execution—such as the depth of interaction and consistency of content—remains to be seen, the premise itself addresses a clear demand for more direct, tailored access to high-caliber knowledge. It’s a concept that merits attention as users explore the platform further.
@suleimenov Great idea! I didn't realize cameo is your product. I still clearly remember the video greetings from NBA star Dikembe Mutombo on it, which truly amazed me back then. I hope your new release is a huge success. I have a small question: are the images and voices of these mentors AI-generated and have they obtained their authorization?
Wow, congrats on the launch! Love mixing AI with top humans in given areas. Have you considered a live Q&A after the lecture?
:) Thats awesome. Next you give Elon Musk a video call and brag about it in front of your friends :) He would be like "Arman privet! How is Nurik doing?" :))
Clever approach — especially with the slide deck! Couple questions:
Did you get the permission from the legends to user their content and likeness?
What do you think of California's Right of Publicity (Civil Code § 3344) law?
I couldn't last more than 15 seconds listening to Legend Karpathy with all of the disfluencies ("ums"). I get the desire to make them sound more human, but this just makes them sound annoying. Which TTS are you using?
Do any of the world's best minds exist in female heads?
is there any risk to using people 'name and likeness' like this? seems like an interesting concept, but if you did really really well i imagine these people would be like ...uh?
congrats on launching!
Cool idea! How did you get rights to use these famous people? I was building something that used some experts' names and abandoned it out of fear :)
Anyway, great looking site and congrats on the launch!
