Coursera Announces Project Helix, a New AI-Native Platform Connecting Skills Discovery and Personalized Learning to Verified Capability and Business Outcomes

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coursera (NYSE: COUR), a leading global online learning platform, today previewed its new AI-native skills platform, code-named Project Helix, at its annual FWD customer event. The adaptive platform is designed to help organizations close talent gaps, accelerate time-to-proficiency, and translate learning investments directly into verified workforce capability. Project Helix represents a significant milestone for the company toward building a completely reimagined product offering after Coursera combined with Udemy in May 2026.

Today, business leaders face a critical mandate: turning AI opportunity into a force multiplier that expands productivity and innovation across their workforce. Traditional enterprise learning models consisting of fragmented point solutions and catalog volume with a focus on course completions are no longer sufficient. Success now requires a new capability-building model that is grounded in real-time skills insights, personalized learning paths, verified readiness, and continuous skill tracking, all at enterprise scale.

“The next era of enterprise learning depends on moving from standalone content to connected journeys that support skill development, application, and proof,” said Greg Hart, CEO of Coursera. “Organizations need a trusted, scalable way to turn AI into an engine of workforce capability. With Project Helix, we are building a true foundation for skills development that starts with the customer’s business goals, identifies critical skill needs, and delivers adaptive learning with verified evidence of proficiency and application against the skills that matter most.”

Project Helix is being built upon the unique strengths of Coursera and Udemy while integrating skills intelligence, AI-powered guidance, and proof of capability, to deliver what enterprises care about:

• Building skills aligned to business priorities: Leaders and learners can articulate goals in natural language to instantly generate adaptive learning paths drawn from universities, industry-leading institutions, and real-world practitioners across Coursera and Udemy’s combined ecosystem of more than 30,000 global content partners and instructors.
• Accelerating application with personalization: The platform will suggest tailored learning experiences across a variety of modalities based on a learner’s goal, role, and demonstrated capability, and informed by the latest labor market signals and the organization’s own data and skill definitions. Continuous, personalized feedback and adaptive practice will help learners move rapidly, from basic comprehension to mastery.
• Bringing learning into one skills stack and embedding it in everyday work: By consolidating learning, credentials, and skills intelligence into a single connected platform, organizations can help reduce the need for redundant point solutions, leverage their existing infrastructure investments, and build capability directly within everyday workflows.
• Proving skills growth and workforce readiness: To help translate skills into actual performance, the platform is designed to combine continuous assessment, practical observation, and recognized credentials. Our goal is to help ensure earned proof flows into a portable skills record — a trusted, interoperable portfolio of capabilities to track skills freshness and inform talent decisions.

“Our customers need to rapidly reduce the lag between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing,’ ensuring their employees can actively develop and apply skills aligned to changing business priorities,” said Patrick Supanc, Chief Product Officer of Coursera. “With Project Helix, we’re ushering in a new era of workforce development that relies on a compounding system of trust, data, and engagement as well as AI guidance and verified proof. It will empower companies to manage an entire learning lifecycle that continuously measures expertise, adapts to evolving business needs, and provides leaders with true visibility into workforce readiness.”

Coursera is working with a select group of partners and customers to help shape Project Helix to address the evolving challenges organizations and their workforces face.

“As skill needs change faster than ever, companies need a more connected way to identify priorities, develop their people, and understand whether learning is translating into capability,” said Rajah Swamidoss, Associate Director of Learning at Flipkart, India’s leading e-commerce marketplace. “We’re excited about how Project Helix brings together agentic learning with capability signals to better align organizations’ strategic goals with the skills their teams need.”

Project Helix will complement ongoing product development as Coursera and Udemy continue to build and introduce new features across both current platforms. It will bring together critical elements of the existing product roadmap while creating a new, unified experience for global customers. The platform is expected to be broadly available to enterprise customers in the first half of 2027.

To see a preview of Project Helix and learn about other new features on Coursera and Udemy, view here.

About Coursera

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms. Together, the Coursera and Udemy platforms reach more than 300 million learners and 12,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

About Udemy

Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform transforming how companies and individuals across the world build the capabilities needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving workplace. By combining on-demand, multi-language content with real-time innovation, Udemy delivers personalized experiences that empower organizations to scale workforce development and help individuals build the technical, business, and soft skills most relevant to their careers. Today, thousands of companies, including Samsung SDS America, On24, Tata Consultancy Services, The World Bank, and Volkswagen, rely on Udemy Business for its enterprise solutions to build agile, future-ready teams. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco, with hubs across the United States, Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. Udemy recently combined with Coursera to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.

Special Note on Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements regarding the development, capabilities and expected availability of Project Helix and the anticipated benefits of the Coursera-Udemy combination. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks relating to the development, timely launch and market adoption of Project Helix; the integration of Coursera and Udemy and realization of anticipated benefits and synergies; and the other risks described in Coursera’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Coursera undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law.

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