First adaptive learning AI to be launched internationally

Chinese education technology company, Squirrel Ai, plans to launch its artificial intelligence-enabled products to international users by the end of this year, after it launched what the company claimed to be the world's first adaptive learning large model that spans major subjects, recently.

"Squirrel Ai is expected to offer new products and services to global users by the end of this year. We will also offer the Squirrel Ai system for free to 20 percent of children from the lowest-income families in the world to promote educational equity,"said Li Haoyang, chairman of Squirrel Ai. 

Driven by Squirrel Ai's 10 billion learning behavior data accumulated from 24 million students, the company's large model has made breakthroughs in AI technologies including recommendation algorithms and deep knowledge tracking, he said. 

The company's newly unveiled large model is also one of the first in the industry to embed adaptive learning technology with multi-modal large models, he added.

Adaptive learning is part of interactive learning which addresses the needs of individuals through learning pathways, effective feedback, and supplemental resources, as opposed to the one-size-fits-all curriculum.

With the move, Li said that the company's momentum in large models has been moved forward from "technology research and development" to "application and industry layout".

Compared with previous products, the latest large-model product can better capture complex relationships and patterns in data, and can more quickly discover the relationship between knowledge points, between knowledge points and questions, and between questions and children's abilities.

Such advancement will provide students with more targeted personalized services, thereby further improving student learning efficiency, Li emphasized.

As of 2023, the company has set up 2,000 offline intelligent learning machine stores and saw its overall business growth rate hitting 300 percent. 

On Friday, a working group for artificial intelligence education large model of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, was set up, with Li being president of the working group.

Other initiators include Huang Ronghuai, a professor from Beijing Normal University, Gu Xiaoqing, a professor from East China Normal University and Xu Bin, a professor from Tsinghua University. 

The working group was established to promote the implementation of relevant policies, offer relevant departments feedback from the front lines of the market on the one hand, and offer further support to the application of AI large model technology in the education field, it said.

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