How much are students using dAIsy, six months on?
dAIsy, Imperial’s AI platform, has been used by 8,500 people between its release in September and early April, according to a Freedom of Information Request by Felix, representing roughly a quarter of the 32,000 staff and students granted access to the LLM aggregator. However, only 3,250 unique users are active on a monthly basis.
The platform’s total development costs prior to its release amount to approximately £40,000 – comparable to the yearly tuition fee of a single international undergraduate student. Technical maintenance costs stand at around £15,500 a month, in addition to around £8,500 in staff costs, bringing the monthly cost per active user to about £7.40.
Imperial enforces a daily token limit for each platform user, and each agent on the platform. So far, users have had just over one hundred thousand conversations with dAIsy’s chatbots.
