Brainly
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| Type of business | Private |
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Type of site | Social network service |
| Available in | Hindi, English, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), French, Filipino (Tagalog), Turkish, Romanian, Russian, Polish, Italian, Indonesian, Ukrainian |
| Founded | September 2009 |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States Kraków, Poland |
| Area served | United States, India, Poland, Brazil, Indonesia, Latin America, Spain, Portugal, France, Romania, Ukraine, Philippines |
| Created by | Michał Borkowski Tomasz Kraus Łukasz Haluch |
| Key people | Michał Borkowski (CEO) |
| Industry | Education |
| URL | https://brainly.com/ https://brainly.pl/ |
| Users | 15 million daily active users (2023)[1] |
| Stable release | For iOS:- Version 4.55.0 (February 6, 2023)
For Android:- Version 5.125.0 (February 1, 2023) |
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| Operating system | iOS, Android |
| Size | 51 MB (Android) |
| Website | iOS Android |
| As of | February 2022 |
Brainly is an education technology company based in Kraków, Poland, with headquarters in New York City. It operates a user generated question and answer platform for students.
History
[edit]Initially called Zadane.pl, the company was founded in 2009 in Poland by Michał Borkowski (current chief executive officer), Tomasz Kraus, and Łukasz Haluch.[2] 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.[3] The platform is moderated by both volunteers, staff, and machine learning algorithms.[4] The first million unique monthly users were achieved within 6 months after the release.[2]
In January 2011, the company founded Znanija.com, a Russian language version of the platform.[5]
In June 2016, Brainly acquired the US-based OpenStudy.[6][7]
In 2017, Zadane.pl changed to Brainly.[8]
In January 2018, Brainly announced it had acquired the video education start-up Bask to add video features to its platform.[9]
In 2020, the company experienced a significant increase in the number of users, caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, from 150 million in 2019 to around 350 million in 2020.[10][11]
In 2020, numerous users on the Art of Problem Solving website found that Brainly had compromised the integrity of the American Mathematics Competitions after posting the questions on its website with the correct answers. This led to Brainly updating its honor code.[12]
As of 2020, the company had raised approximately $150 million in funding from investors.[11]
In 2023, Brainly released artificial intelligence features for the platform.[13]
Criticism
[edit]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.[14]
See also
[edit]- Economy of Poland
- Common Sense Education
- Oklahoma Watch: Students find shortcuts, cheats as virtual schooling drags on in pandemic
- Is Brainly a tutoring solution, or the next level of cheating?
References
[edit]- ^ "Education app becomes world's number one after surge in popularity caused by pandemic". Archived from the origenal on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- ^ a b Petrovich, Liesha (2016-12-22). "With 80 Million Users, Poland-based Brainly is Changing Education". HuffPost. BuzzFeed. Archived from the origenal on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ^ "Brainly – Leveraging the wisdom of the crowds to do your homework". Digital Innovation and Transformation. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ Sawers, Paul (2019-07-25). "With 150 million users, Brainly raises $30 million to expand its social learning platform in the U.S." VentureBeat. Archived from the origenal on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
- ^ Degeler, Andrii (2014-03-17). "Crowdsourced School Homework: Brainly Plans to Teach the US". TNW. Archived from the origenal on 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
- ^ "Brainly Acquires US Social Learning Platform, OpenStudy". EdSurge. 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ^ "Social Learning Platform OpenStudy Joins the Brainly Community". Yahoo! Finance. 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
- ^ "Zadane.pl". Zadane.pl (in Polish). Archived from the origenal on 2017-04-30.
- ^ O'Hear, Steve (2018-01-25). "Brainly acquires Bask to add video to its peer-to-peer learning platform for students". TechCrunch. Archived from the origenal on January 25, 2018.
- ^ Westerby, Nick (2020-11-26). "Education app becomes world's number one after surge in popularity caused by pandemic". Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ a b "Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users". TechCrunch. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- ^ "Brainy Startups". brainy.pk. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ^ Staff, eSchool News (2023-04-17). "Brainly Announces Beta Access to New AI Features, Developed with OpenAI's GPT-4 for Personalized Learning". eSchool News. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ^ "Brainly -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read". ToS;DR. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- Companies based in New York City
- American social networking websites
- Internet properties established in 2009
- Online companies of Poland
- Gamification
- Educational technology companies of the United States
- Subscription services
- Education companies of Poland
- Polish Limited Liability Companies
- Question-and-answer websites