Squirrel AI is a student-centric adaptive learning system that delivers personalized education by applying teaching, evaluation, testing, practice, and the MCM model. The learning system understands its users’ attention spans and study patterns to identify their weaknesses, recommend and provide the most appropriate learning contents for each student, and improve their academic performances by leveraging machine learning (ML) technologies and best-in-class learning practices. Besides helping students improve on academic performances, via its innovative MCM model, Squirrel AI also helps students cultivate creativity, critical thinking, integration, and various other skills to simplify and streamline the learning process. Additionally, the AI learns from teachers to recognize, store, and reenact their teaching styles, which truly personalizes the academic experience for students. “We expect to create a super AI teacher characterized by Confucius, da Vinci, and Einstein,” states an enthusiastic Li. "Squirrel AI's MCM system, after completing a series of assessment tests, learning abilities, learning speed analysis, knowledge point blindness, and weakness for learners with the same score, depicts an accurate user portrait of students and their capabilities,” he adds. Furthermore, owing to the company’s collaboration with institutions such as SRI International (Stanford Research Institute), Chinese Academy of Science, and Carnegie Mellon University, Squirrel AI has been shown to improve the learning efficiency with unique knowledge mapping techniques, three-ten times higher than previously recorded.

To provide more evidence on the strength of the company’s AI-powered adaptive system, Li shares a case study of his twin sons who, while studying in the second grade, were taught eighth-grade physics via the Squirrel AI Learning system. In five months, the children gained four-six times more knowledge points than the national average for their age group. “By understanding a child’s various aptitudes, we can actively teach students in areas where they show more interest to achieve the best academic results,” states Li.

Squirrel AI Learning has opened nearly 2000 learning centers and it aims to reach a total number of 6,000 learning centers in the next two years. Li and his team hope to collaborate with more organizations overseas through technology export and build partnerships with local content producers as well. Through these developmental strides, Squirrel AI Leaning is set to drive the future of AI-powered education in China and, propelled by its many awards in the field, is gearing up to bolster the academic experience of the interest-piquing millennials in the times to come.