PadhAI AI developed by IITians cracked UPSC 2024 live on 16th June just after the exam and achieved 170+ out of 200 total within 7 minutes.
On June 16th, PadhAI’s AI system independently took the UPSC preliminary exam 2024.
From start to end, PadhAI AI took under 7 minutes to solve the entire paper.
PadhAI scored 170+ out of 200, typical qualifying marks are under 100.
This score easily places PadhAI’s score in the top 10 nationally, if not rank 1.
This event was conducted in front of distinguished guests from education, UPSC coaching community, and media personnel in The LaLiT, New Delhi.
The event was live-streamed at livestream.padhai.ai and YouTube, where the questions and answers are publicly available.
The objective was to demonstrate that the AI powering PadhAI’s features, is not only a helpful teacher, available 24x7x365 with features like discuss with a book, news summaries, question discussions, and doubt clarification, but is also the smartest aspirant.
PadhAI AI is so proficient that it can independently take the exam and score top marks, proving its reliability as a study companion or teacher for UPSC preparation.
The event flow was kept completely transparent, from livestreaming the scanning of the question paper itself directly from the exam center to solving everything in the open, live, both online and offline.
In fact, the timing of the event itself was chosen to be right after the UPSC Prelims 2024 exam – 11.40am, June 16, 2024 with the first paper finishing at 11.30am. This was done so that the PadhAI AI strength can be shown unbiased by any direct information available online about the exam.
The AI’s answers were also compared with broad AI models commercially available from big tech companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft & Google by using answer keys released by top coaching institutes.
This is the first such event, not just for UPSC in India, but for any exam in the world, that an AI tool’s capability to take an actual exam and ace it, is showcased live in a public setting.
PadhAI’s CEO is Dr. Karttikeya Mangalam. He holds a PhD in AI from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by Prof. Jitendra Malik, one of the top 10 AI researchers in the world. Prior to this, he was a visiting researcher at Meta AI and Google AI. He graduated with highest honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Karttikeya is joined by PadhAI’s Founding Team, comprising a handful of full-time employees picked from elite world institutions such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, EPFL, IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur, working across AI, Android Engineering, Product and Growth.
Unlike broad commercial AI models from Google and OpenAI, PadhAI AI is specifically designed for UPSC exam preparation.
PadhAI is developed in-house by the PadhAI team and operates in tandem with several open and closed source AI models in carefully defined systems to generate, verify, and assimilate information to produce the responses.
The PadhAI app, adopted and used by over 1 Lakh UPSC aspirants nationally is crucial in providing key learnings necessary for PadhAI AI to become stronger than other available broad LLMs.
These systems based on LLM models are trained and maintained in-house on UPSC relevant information from books, UPSC magazines, newspapers, and previous questions.
Through these systems, PadhAI’s answers are tailored to effectively communicate all necessary information for UPSC aspirants.
PadhAI AI ensures the factual accuracy of the information it uses and generates.
PadhAI AI is aware of common exam strategies and offers targeted guidance to aspirants.
Karttikeya Mangalam, CEO, PadhAI
“This is the highest score achieved in the last 10 years of UPSC exams”
“We believe that while our event is first of its kind, in a few years, such events will become commonplace as several educational institutions race to solve papers quickly and precisely with AIs”
Atish Mathur, distinguished UPSC teacher
“It has been an outstanding, truly remarkable and scary experience.”
“PadhAI actually solves real problems in a reliable manner and helps students achieve their goals in a more credible fashion.”
“It was remarkable to see the progress of scientific development.”
“This is the best AI app for UPSC preparation”
Atul Kumar, CEO, Physics Wallah LIVE
“Use of AI in education is definitely imminent in the future.”
PadhAI is an AI X Education app for UPSC preparation
The PadhAI app is available on the Google Play Store.
It has 1 lakh+ downloads in less than 6 months
It offers several AI features, including news summaries, smart PYQ search, doubt clarification, interactive answer explanations, book summaries, and much more
