Brain Brew

What it does

Brain Brew is a new platform that provides learners with interactive and personalized AI study companions to their textbooks. We address the problem of reliability of language models by implementing a retrieval-augmented generation approach using expert documents such as textbooks as references. We provide a suite of AI-powered study tools built on each expert document. These tools emulate various active-learning strategies to help students learn the contents of the expert documents, including but not limited to Podcasts (audio summaries of concepts personalized to students’ learning styles and mastery), Flashcards (questions and answers taking into consideration previously mastered concepts), and Study Partner (a conversational AI that poses questions, listens to answers, and provides clarifications to misconceptions).

Our app is built on Flutter and Firebase, and uses Vertex AI and Gemini for its AI features. Gemini Flash 1.5 via Vertex AI with textbooks as a reference and user's learning style and learning progress as part of the prompts are used to generate text summaries, questions, answers, and clarifications to misconceptions. Periodically, Gemini is also used to update a list of topics the user learned to guide future lessons. Text-to-speech via vertex AI allows our features to converse with users audibly.