September 16, 2026

Enhanced features

• Less of a pause before Dr. Olivia begins. Before she can answer, she gathers a fair amount: the passages from your textbooks and videos that relate to what you asked, your learning profile, the notes she keeps about you, any documents you have uploaded, and — on a guided assignment — where you are against the requirements. She used to fetch all of that one piece at a time, waiting for each before starting the next. She now gathers it together, so the wait is as long as the slowest piece rather than all of them added up.

  She also no longer looks up the same detail about your session twice, which it turns out she had been doing on every single question.

  Her answers are unchanged. She reads the same material, in the same order, and says the same things about it. This is purely about how long she spends collecting it.

• Upload your slides and documents directly. Word documents, PowerPoint decks and Excel spreadsheets can now be uploaded as they are — and so can the LibreOffice and OpenOffice equivalents (.odt, .odp, .ods), which work exactly as well. Until now you had to export to PDF first, which was an extra step and quietly lost the slide numbering.

  Two things worth knowing. She reads the text in them, not the images: a slide's words reach her, its diagrams do not, so a deck that carries its meaning entirely in figures will arrive nearly empty — she will say so rather than guess. And a slide counts as a page, so you can ask her about "slide 7" and she knows which one you mean.

  Files with macros (.docm, .pptm, .xlsm) and the very old formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) are not accepted; re-saving in the current format is all that is needed, and she will tell you that if you hit it.

• Ask her what she can do, and she will tell you. She could always pull up your course materials, look at your exam results, write you practice questions, draw you a diagram or work from a file you uploaded — but if you asked her outright what she was capable of, she was vague about it. She now knows her own strengths and limits and will answer straight, including when the answer is no. Worth two minutes if you have only ever used her for one thing.