How Khan Academy Rebuilds Its Khanmigo AI Tutor

After noticing a low usage rate, Khan Academy thoroughly reviewed its assistant Khanmigo to offer more proactive and better targeted help to students.

Khan Academy conducted a series of rigorous product tests between October 2025 and April 2026 to redesign its Khanmigo AI tutor, after finding that only a minority of students with access to it actually used it.

The redesign, deployed from the summer of 2026 for participating schools, evolves Khanmigo from an open chat to a more proactive support: the assistant now makes himself more visible while the student is working, distinguishes whether he or she is discovering a concept for the first time or revising it, and can offer to review prerequisites when he or she detects gaps.