14 January, 2026 - Last week in TI
- Rahul Subramaniam
- Releases
- January 14, 2026
EduPaid v2.14.1: Enhanced Parent Financial Overview & Simplified Discount Management
Providers gain comprehensive parent financial insights with dedicated details pages showing complete transaction history, while simplified discount management now automatically applies across all payment frequencies.
- Enhanced parent financial overview with discount visibility: Access comprehensive parent financial information in dedicated details pages with billing status, complete transaction history organized in tabs (payments, deposits, refunds), child overview with subscription status at a glance, quick navigation to student details, plus detailed discount information showing which students receive each discount and total student counts for better discount program understanding.
- Simplified universal discount management: Discounts now automatically apply across all payment frequencies with universal application—one discount setting applies to monthly, quarterly, and annual payments automatically—streamlining setup, reducing configuration complexity, and ensuring students receive consistent savings regardless of their chosen payment schedule.
EduLLM: Multi-Select Support & Enhanced Data Model Compliance
The question generator now supports multi-select questions (MSQ) and achieves full compliance with the latest data model specifications, while reaching 92% acceptance rate through improved generation algorithms and enhanced quality controls across multiple evaluation cycles.
- Multi-select question (MSQ) support: Added full support for MSQ question types enabling generation of questions with multiple correct answers.
- Data model compliance: Achieved full compliance with the latest data model specifications through thorough refinement of substandard data.
- Quality improvements: Reached 92% acceptance rate through systematic resolution of ambiguous question stems with clearer context, enhanced distractor quality to avoid obvious incorrect answers, and minor bug fixes across multiple evaluation cycles.
Incept Bench
Incept Bench now provides a complete dashboard where you can run your generator endpoint on a dataset and benchmark your generator against all other available generators, making evaluation and comparison seamless in one place.
- Version 2.3.0 Released – Major evaluator improvements including enhanced flexibility around curriculum stems, allowing for more natural question variations while maintaining alignment with standards.
- Improved Image Question Handling – Fixed issues where questions with supporting images were incorrectly rejected, ensuring proper evaluation of visual content that enhances question context.
- Assessment Boundary Fixes – Resolved evaluator hallucinations related to assessment boundaries, providing more accurate and reliable evaluation results.
- Benchmark Platform Revamp – Complete redesign with a user-friendly UI that provides comprehensive run insights, detailed analytics, and easy access to datasets for generator teams.
Athena Applets: Strong Quality Metrics & Multi-Grade Expansion
16 new lessons generated, 7 lessons approved this week, achieving a 42.9% first-time pass rate. Total review time was 83.9 minutes (4.9 minutes per iteration), and the current review queue holds 70 lessons.
- Production output – 16 new lessons generated and 7 lessons approved this week.
- Quality improvement – 42.9% first-time pass rate.
- Efficient iteration cycle – 17 total iterations completed in the past 7 days (10 feedback rounds, 7 approvals) with an average of 2.3 comments per lesson (14 total comments).
- Multi-grade coverage – Lessons approved across multiple grades: Grade 3 (4 lessons), Grade 5 (1 lesson), Grade 6 (2 lessons), with a review queue of 70 lessons ready for validation (Grade 3: 1, Grade 4: 6, Grade 5: 0, Grade 6: 63).
- Review time insights – Average review time of 4.9 minutes per iteration (total 83.9 minutes).
- Complete lesson catalog – See the full list of all uploaded lessons across grades in this lesson catalog with direct links to each lesson.
BrainTrust: Bulk Processing & Enhanced School Reports
The Schools Agent now handles large-scale location analysis with intelligent spreadsheet integration, plus enhanced visualizations and shareable parent reports that streamline your workflow.
- Bulk Location Processing – Analyze entire spreadsheets at once by sharing Google Sheets with multiple addresses. BrainTrust automatically processes all locations and writes results directly back to your sheet, with built-in safeguards to prevent duplicate processing. Add new rows anytime and rerun—only new locations will be analyzed, making it effortless to scale your school research.
- Improved Map Visualizations – School report dashboards now feature updated maps with clearer displays and better visual presentation, making it easier to understand geographic context and proximity information at a glance.
- Google Docs Parent Reports – Automatically generate clean, professional reports via Google Docs that can be directly shared with parents. No more manual report creation—get shareable documents instantly for quick distribution.
Social Toolkit (Utility Server): Enhanced Reliability & Performance
Social Toolkit now delivers improved reliability and performance through optimized API usage, intelligent retry mechanisms, and strengthened bot protection handling—ensuring consistent uptime and successful transcript extraction even under challenging conditions.
- Optimized API calls – Transcript extraction now fetches YouTube metadata only once per request, eliminating redundant calls and reducing overall YouTube API usage by ~50%.
- Enhanced uptime under rate limits – Automatic exponential-backoff retries across all endpoints gracefully handle rate limits and transient failures, eliminating 429-driven failures in normal operation.
- Stronger bot protection handling – Enabled EJS remote components and PO token support to improve successful access when YouTube presents JavaScript challenges and bot-protection flows.
LearnLens Studio: Complete SEO Foundation & Enhanced User Experience
LearnLens Studio establishes a comprehensive SEO and discoverability foundation while delivering instant course-ready notifications and improved reliability under load—positioning courses for organic growth and ensuring a polished user experience from creation to completion.
- Instant course-ready notifications – Apple-inspired email notifications deliver immediate updates with thumbnails, course stats, and one-click access when courses are ready.
- Richer search visibility – Course schema markup powers rich Google results with ratings, descriptions, and key details so courses stand out before users click.
- Complete discoverability foundation – Google Analytics 4, Search Console verification, dynamic sitemaps, robots.txt, and Organization/WebApplication schema markup establish the infrastructure for organic growth.
- Enhanced navigation & structure – Breadcrumb navigation with schema markup helps users understand their location and search engines better interpret site structure.
- Page-specific optimization – Dynamically generated metadata per page ensures accurate titles, descriptions, and social previews at scale for courses, popular content, and key pages.
- Reliable generation under load – Smart retry logic and sequential processing improve completion rates for large courses during peak load, preventing timeouts.
- Trust & compliance signals – Dedicated Privacy Policy and Terms pages strengthen user trust and support SEO credibility.
Athena Accelerator: Stability & Intelligence Refinements
This release focuses on foundational stability and system intelligence improvements. Bug fixes across the platform address question sequencing, difficulty calibration, and intervention reasoning, quality checks on intervention student prompts—ensuring students experience smoother, more coherent learning paths. Behind the scenes, enhancements to the simulation and monitoring infrastructure strengthen our ability to validate system behavior and catch edge cases before they reach learners.
- Core Fixes – Resolved issues affecting question sequencing, difficulty level mix, intervention selection logic, and various UI inconsistencies and quality check refinements on student intervenion prompts.
- Simulation Improvements – Refined simulated student agents for more cohesive behavior during system validation and monitoring.
- Known Beta Limitations – Some questions may appear outside substandard assessment boundaries; repair questions occasionally display formatting issues (missing line breaks) or missing answer options; simulated students may exhibit inconsistent patterns. Limitations around answer format matching also remain under investigation.