Moti Malka, a reservist officer and head of a development and technology team in civilian life, developed together with his 10-year-old son a first-of-its-kind free Israeli environment that allows children aged 6 and up to create games, applications, and educational activities on their own. This is done through a simple natural-language AI chat and within a few minutes. The platform also allows users to share and play with friends, use games built by others, improve them, take on challenges, and thereby gain more and more AI usage skills.
Yuvi Lab is a free Israeli environment with no username or password, making artificial intelligence accessible to children and youth in a safe and age-appropriate setting. The system enables learning and creation through conversation with AI in natural Hebrew, where children can ask questions, learn new topics, and create a wide variety of outputs ranging from creative projects to digital applications within a conversation lasting just a few minutes. There is no limit on the number of projects that can be created.
The platform is based on a Multi-Agent AI architecture, combining advanced language models (LLMs) alongside code-optimized models. A Smart Routing system directs each interaction to the most suitable model in real time, whether it is an educational explanation, code generation, problem solving, or idea development.
This creates a dynamic learning experience in which the AI adapts to the child’s level, language, and difficulty through an Adaptive Personalization mechanism. In addition, Yuvi operates a dedicated assistant agent with integrated memory and context-aware reasoning, enabling the system to learn each child’s interests and preferences over time.
The environment was developed according to the principle of “Privacy by Design,” so no identifiable information about the children is stored. In addition, all AI-generated content goes through safety checks and filtering (Content Safety Filtering) before it is shown to the child. This ensures the environment is protected from sexual, violent, or political content, and users who do not maintain respectful dialogue are blocked. This approach allows parents and the education system to provide children with a safe, educational, and controlled digital environment.
The father who built a platform so his child would stop staring at a screen
Malka has completed hundreds of reserve duty days since October 7 as an operations officer in the Home Front Command across multiple combat sectors. With the outbreak of “Operation Swords of Iron,” his wife went into labor with their fourth child, and he returned home. “On Saturday evening, my wife told me that our eight-year-old son was spending hours a day playing with friends on Roblox. Although the platform’s purpose is positive, it had become a non-beneficial place.”
“I decided to sit with my son and we started thinking about a way to build our own platform. I spoke with a good colleague and together with my 10-year-old son we began developing the Yuvi LAB platform. We developed features and educational tools together, while running to shelters with a newborn baby just a few days old.”
Moti’s friends were called to join the effort, and together they improved Yuvi based on the idea that today’s games and educational content do not give their children the AI skills they need. “We wanted to create a space for acquiring Vibe Coding skills, and a sense of natural comfort in the technological world from a young age.” Two weeks later, there were 800 active users who regularly create games and more than 1,000 projects.
“The platform was born from the desire to turn children’s screen time into meaningful time of learning and development. Children need real training for a future where AI is a language, and every child needs to know how to use it and optimize their learning in a creative and safe way.” “Our vision is to create a platform for children to connect to AI, as advanced users and as developers. Along the way, they gain educationally from a tool that helps them learn any subject they want, from math to history.”
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