In the past two years, general-purpose large models have shown explosive development, and vertical AI has encountered a crisis of "technology replacement".

On April 15, Yuanfudao Group officially launched its first educational AI paradigm - "Xiaoyuan AI" at the "Xiaoyuan AI" strategy launch conference, and released a trinity solution of "software application + smart terminal + general knowledge course" covering both ends of the home and school, covering Xiaoyuan AI App, Xiaoyuan AI learning machine and Feixiang Planet Artificial Intelligence General Course, systematically responding to the development propositions of educational AI in the big model era.

This release directly hits the core proposition of vertical AI: When ChatGPTs penetrate across borders as an "all-round player", how can AI focusing on educational scenarios build irreplaceable competitive barriers? What is the technical path to educational AI? What are the values ​​of educational AI?

Break through the dilemma of general big model application Xiaoyuan AI promotes personalized learning to a new stage

Globally, the rapid development of various large models has attracted widespread attention. However, general big models still face many challenges in vertical applications, especially in the field of education. Questions such as "children chatting and chatting" and "questionable answer accuracy" continue to plague many parents. In summary, "AI+Education" needs to break through three major difficulties: functional generation gap, educational adaptation fault, and loss of security defense lines.

Wang Xiangdong, vice president and head of smart hardware, emphasized: "Education is not a disorderly carnival of information, but a precision surgery for cognition." In this special field, the demand for knowledge security and precise navigation is far higher than information freedom and random generation. "From "AI+Education" to "education +AI" has become very important. ”

Based on this thinking, Yuanfudao Group launched the first educational AI specially designed for primary and secondary school students - Xiaoyuan AI. The bottom layer is the data layer, the upper layer is the scene layer, and the middle two layers are the model layer and the logic layer respectively. Vertical applications usually have obvious advantages in the data layer and the scene layer.

Xiaoyuan AI adopts a four-layer architecture to cover all learning scenarios

Xiaoyuan AI adopts a four-layer architecture to cover all learning scenarios

As early as 2014, Yuanfudao Group established the industry's first artificial intelligence laboratory and started the exploration of "education + AI", covering more than 100 educational application scenarios. After more than ten years of exploration, a high-quality data set covering learning content data, dynamic academic data and rich cooperative resources have been accumulated. The big model brings stronger data analysis capabilities, which has enabled Yuanfudao Group to master children's learning situation to an unprecedented new stage. Wang Xiangdong said, "With the help of big model capabilities, Xiaoyuan AI can not only quickly lock in students' errors and thinking loopholes, but also understand students' emotions by processing text, voice, video and image interaction information, so as to make a more accurate assessment of their knowledge mastery, learning habits, learning preferences and learning abilities." Based on the accumulation of data and scenarios, it is the first barrier built by educational AI.

Last year, Yuanfudao Group's self-developed big model passed the filing and passed the highest level (level 5) certification of the Institute of Information and Communications Technology. At the same time, it took the lead in formulating the "Basic Requirements for Content Review of Intelligent Learning Terminals", so that its big model has enough voice in terms of technological leadership and educational content security.

The Xiaoyuan AI model layer is composed of Yuanli big model and Deepseek-R1 model matrix developed by Yuanfudao Group. It can not only give full play to the advantages of the big model, but also ensure the professionalism of education. This may become another barrier to educational AI. It is reported that Deepseek-R1 has powerful inference and self-evolution capabilities, which can promote the continuous evolution of the ape power model. The Yuanli big model has more advantages in understanding educational scenarios, which can ensure real-time cognitive alignment and perform information security filtering. "The two train and complement each other, and jointly promote the return of educational AI to the essence of education." Wang Xiangdong said.

The construction of logic layer is the key to distinguish it from the application of general large-scale models. According to reports, Xiaoyuan AI uses its "teaching thinking chain" to train and promote the evolution of teaching logic through cooperation with special teachers in primary and secondary schools, so that its teaching wisdom can be transformed into a scaleable digital asset. At the same time, with more than 5 million hours of course video accumulation, Yuanfudao Group knows better how to use digital technology to reconstruct the online teaching model of special teachers and form a closed loop of "teaching goal structure - element separation - technology reconstruction - dynamic debugging" teaching logic evolution.

What user value can this set of educational AI operation logic bring?

Wang Xiangdong believes that "it is to let children's personalized learning enter a new stage." He further explained, "In the field of education, personalized learning platforms use artificial intelligence technology to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, meet the learning needs of different students, promote educational equity, and cultivate more innovative talents that adapt to the development of the times. This is also the value of our educational AI."

Xiaoyuan AI App: Exclusive education AI for primary and secondary school students creates full-scene learning solutions

This educational AI was first implemented on its software application of the Xiaoyuan AI APP, making it more valuable for large-scale applications.

Xiaoyuan AI APP is a full-scene learning solution specially designed for primary and secondary school students. It adopts a minimalist interactive interface, covering more than 100 key learning scenarios, realizes personalized 1V1 explanations of real-life teachers, and promotes the leap of educational AI applications from auxiliary tools to growth partners.

According to reports, this product deeply integrates core functions such as AI homework correction, five-fold error analysis, and personalized questions, and extends application scenarios from homework scenarios to the entire family learning process such as preview, review, and independent exercises.

In the homework correction process, Xiaoyuan AI APP can not only accurately identify complex question types such as application questions with graphs and geometric image questions, but also realize step-by-step error positioning. Its original "five-fold error cause analysis method" accurately locates students' error causes through five dimensions: knowledge vulnerability detection, thinking path backtracking, concept correlation analysis, problem-solving habit diagnosis, and cognitive level assessment. Different from traditional AI explanations, Xiaoyuan AI APP has implemented the "1v1 personalized explanation" based on the error cause for the first time, simulating the explanation ideas of professional teachers, making the entire explanation process more in line with the acceptance ability of school-age children and improving learning efficiency.

Xiaoyuan AI APP implements "1v1 personalized explanation" based on error causes for the first time

Xiaoyuan AI APP implements "1v1 personalized explanation" based on error causes for the first time

AI-based interactive innovation is also one of the highlights of the product. The product presents a minimalist interface, no longer relying on people to find functions, but functions to find people. Its "interactive preview" function stimulates interest in learning through situational interaction and improves the sense of learning substitution. The application introduces the author and historical background through interesting stories, disassembles the content layer by sentence, asks interactive questions and real-time feedback to improve students' comprehension. Its "Encyclopedia Little Ape" function cooperates with the authoritative encyclopedia series of books DK to provide professional knowledge answers through interactive Q&A in ways that children like, which not only expands students' knowledge learning, but also stimulates students' interest in exploring knowledge.

It is worth noting that Xiaoyuan AI App is the first to introduce mental health protection functions. The system uses a big model to identify user emotions, and through the "empathy-comfort-action" path, it narrows the psychological distance with the child, provides emotional support and ground-based solutions, and becomes a child's emotional counseling tutor and psychological counseling partner. It is reported that in real user tests, Xiaoyuan AI once helped children solve psychological problems through 11 minutes of conversation.

Its first memory model has enabled it to evolve from learning tools to growth protection partners. "Educational AI is not a simple tool, but an intelligent partner with warmth. This is the essential evolution of educational technology products." Wang Xiangdong emphasized that in the future, the product will be promoted to students for free and become an exclusive educational AI for primary and secondary school students with universal value.

With the promotion and application of this product, AI technology will also redefine the educational connotation of "teaching according to aptitude" and open up a new path for personalized learning.

Xiaoyuan AI learning machine: the first AI full-process learning tutoring robot

What form of products can better reflect the full value of educational AI and more comprehensively promote personalized learning?

At this press conference, Yuanfudao Group tried to answer this question with a new generation of Xiaoyuan AI learning machine equipped with a smart dock. This is also the first time that Yuanfudao Group has released a learning machine product after Xiaoyuanxue practices.

According to Wang Xiangdong, "Traditional learning products focus on single-point breakthroughs, and the educational AI base based on large models makes systematic changes possible. We hope to bring new personalized learning experiences to children through new technologies and new hardware." Xiaoyuan's new generation of AI learning machines, with tablets as eyes and ears and smart base as hands, provides tutoring solutions covering the entire process of learning programs such as daily learning plans, learning conditions diagnosis, knowledge graphs, course learning, and daily exercises, to promote personalized learning to go further.

Xiaoyuan AI learning machine realizes AI full-process assisted learning for the first time

Xiaoyuan AI learning machine realizes AI full-process assisted learning for the first time

On the homepage of Xiaoyuan AI learning machine, the "Today's Homework" section occupies more than half of the screen. For the "homework" scene, a must-read after-class scenario, Xiaoyuan exclusively developed a homework tutoring system and used this link to learn the entire scene. The system supports various uploaded homework forms such as device photography, Xiaoyuan Smart Hardware Parent-end text editing, etc. The system will automatically disassemble the homework into a clear learning plan, and accurately match the corresponding learning content based on the knowledge system and learning rules of each subject. During this process, even if parents are not around their children, they can still understand their children's homework completion progress in real time through the mobile phone, achieving close coordination between home and school.

At the same time, relying on the learning content resources advantages that Yuanfudao Group has accumulated over the years, Xiaoyuan AI learning machine has created a closed-loop process of "diagnosis-learning-practice" to provide more accurate support for children's personalized learning. The learning diagnosis of traditional learning machines mostly relies on systematic questions and answering questions, while Xiaoyuan’s new generation AI learning machines support taking photos to upload past homework and test papers in batches, and conducting systematic "review" and "diagnosis". The system's academic diagnosis runs through every step of learning. It is reported that children's interactive Q&A during class will be used as the basis for their diagnosis. Different from ordinary AI homework correction, Xiaoyuan AI learning machine provides step-by-step homework correction and error diagnosis, directly hitting knowledge and ability loopholes, making the diagnosis more accurate.

The product is based on intelligent hardware, matches the new curriculum standards to record more than 20,000 high-quality courses, supports synchronous learning, training of excellent learning, etc., to meet learning needs at different levels. At the same time, the product has introduced systematic courses such as new concepts and Cambridge, which has consolidated the basic content.

Not only that, after matching with the smart dock, Xiaoyuan AI learning machine instantly transforms into a lively and cute robot, with richer "emotional interaction" capabilities, and can interact and communicate with children vividly and vividly through more than 20 personalized actions and emotional expressions such as nodding, likes, fear, and sadness. Surprisingly, it also has a keen emotional recognition function, which can intelligently switch different tones to communicate based on the user's different moods and chat topics, give gentle comfort when sadness, convey passionate resonance when joy, communicate with children's hearts at all times, empathize with every bit of growth, and achieve psychological health protection.

In terms of hardware, Xiaoyuan AI learning machine continues the consistent style of Xiaoyuan series products, selects top-level accessories, and insists on eye protection first. Its 13-inch ultra-clear original painting screen is the first screen in the industry to pass Rhine Global Eye Protection 3.0 certification.

Feixiang Artificial Intelligence General Course: The first AI general education product that integrates all grades of primary and secondary schools

The widespread application of artificial intelligence technology not only brings new possibilities to education, but also reshapes the lives of primary and secondary school students. From personalized learning to smart games and interactive tools, as these changes deepen, the importance of general education in artificial intelligence has become increasingly apparent.

At this press conference, Feixiang Planet released the first domestic general education product of artificial intelligence that runs through all grades of primary and secondary schools - Feixiang Artificial Intelligence General Course. This course was developed for the first time by a joint development of the dual expert team, namely experts from Yuanli Technology Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and Feixiang Science Teaching and Research Group. It has introduced the most mainstream AI platforms and tools at home and abroad, including DeepSeek, Manus, Tencent Yuanbao, Keling AI, etc., and taught students technical principles such as generative AI and large language models. The course covers all grades of primary and junior high schools, and contains 10 courses and 160 lessons. The course content is from perception to application to development, and the difficulty is progressing layer by layer and remains dynamically updated.

Feixiang Planet releases the first AI general course that runs through all grades of primary and secondary schools

Feixiang Planet releases the first AI general course that runs through all grades of primary and secondary schools

Different from traditional teaching methods, Feixiang Artificial Intelligence General Class has designed a large number of interactive experience links, such as through group cooperation, allowing students to measure the face information of their peers and experience the process of artificial intelligence face recognition. At the same time, project-based and inquiry-based teaching methods are adopted. For example, when drivers have safety risks when driving fatigue, students can try to solve the problem with the learned facial recognition technology. This type of learning method emphasizes the practicality of learning, encourages students to discover problems, analyze problems, and then use the artificial intelligence technology they have learned to try to solve problems.

Feixiang Artificial Intelligence General Course aims to provide solutions for high-quality popularization of artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools. Therefore, the course adopts its first "intelligent dual-teacher" model, combining online teaching with local teachers' interactive Q&A, so that any classroom can carry out artificial intelligence education. This effectively solves the problems of insufficient professional faculty and difficulty in implementing it, realizes the sharing of high-quality educational resources, and provides an example for popularizing artificial intelligence education in primary and secondary schools.

At present, the course has been piloted in more than 1,000 schools in 25 provinces and cities including Beijing, Chongqing, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, including Beijing, Chongqing, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, covering 150,000 students.

From technological breakthroughs in education vertical large models, to product innovation in family learning scenarios, to the leading national pilot of campus AI education, Yuanfudao Group's triple AI layout indicates that this company has achieved a transformation from "new technology" to "new intelligence", and its products have fully entered the era of AI intelligence. In the deep water exploration of "AI+Education", Yuanfudao Group has shown the infinite possibilities of technology-enabled education.

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