Brainly is an education technology company based in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
,
Poland
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, with headquarters in
New York City
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. It operates a user generated question and answer platform for students.
History
Initially called Zadane.pl, the company was founded in 2009 in Poland by Michał Borkowski (current
chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization.
CEOs find roles in variou ...
), Tomasz Kraus, and Łukasz Haluch.
The website is a peer-to-peer platform where students can ask questions, and answer them for other students. Ranks are provided to students who provide high-quality answers. The platform is moderated by both volunteers, staff, and machine learning algorithms. The first million unique monthly users were achieved within 6 months after the release.
In January 2011, the company founded Znanija.com, a
Russian language
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version of the platform.
In June 2016, Brainly acquired the US-based OpenStudy.
In January 2018, Brainly announced it had acquired the video education start-up Bask to add video features to its platform.
In 2020, the company experienced a significant increase in the number of users, caused by the global
COVID-19 pandemic
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, from 150 million in 2019 to around 350 million in 2020.
In 2020, numerous users on the
Art of Problem Solving website found that Brainly had compromised the integrity of the
American Mathematics Competitions
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Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that ...
after posting the questions on its website with the correct answers. This led to Brainly updating its honor code.
As of 2020, the company had raised approximately $150 million in funding from investors.
In 2023, Brainly released artificial intelligence features for the platform.
In 2024, Brainly released Test Prep, an AI-powered tool to help students improve their test scores.
Criticism
ToS;DR (
Terms of Service; Didn't Read), a project which analyzes terms of services (
ToS) and
privacy policies of websites, ranks Brainly at grade D.
See also
*
Economy of Poland
External links
Official website
* ttps://borderpolar.com/2021/02/05/brainly-tutoring-or-cheating/ Is Brainly a tutoring solution, or the next level of cheating?
References
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Educational technology companies of the United States
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Question-and-answer websites