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Squirrel AI
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'''Squirrel AI''' is a Chinese [[online education]] company.
China offers incentives for- AI efforts that improve student learning, teacher training or school management. One estimate held that various firms invested over $1 billion invested in AI-based education in 2018.<ref name=":0"></ref>
== Methodology ==
Squirrel uses [[artificial intelligence]] to tailor lesson plans to each individual student.<ref name=":0" /> Chinese researchers have access to the world's largest student databases, which are used to train AI's.<ref name=":0" />
Squirrel works with excellent teachers to identify the most granular possible concepts ("knowledge points") for a course in order to precisely target learning gaps. For example, middle school mathematics is broken into over 10,000 points such as [[rational numbers]], the properties of a [[triangle]], and the [[Pythagorean theorem]]. Each point is linked to related items, forming a "knowledge graph". Each knowledge point is addressed by videos, examples and practice problems. A textbook might address 3,000 points; [[ALEKS]], another adaptive learning platform, uses 1,000. <ref name=":0" />
Each student begins with a diagnostic test to identify where to begin the learning. The system continues to refine its graph as more students proceed. Learning is not student-directed. The system decides the order of topics.
== History ==
The company was founded in 2014 by Derek Li.<ref name=":0" />
By 2019 it had opened 2,000 learning centers in 200 cities and registered over a million students. It intended to open 2,000 additional centers by 2020.<ref name=":0" />
In 2019 the company opened a research lab in a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. The [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] and the [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]] highlighted AI as an important resource for [[online education]]. In ''Rewiring Education'', [[Apple Inc.|Apple's]] vice president of education John Couch noted Squirrel AI's success.<ref name=":0" />
As of 2019, the company had raised over $180 million in funding and in 2018 it surpassed $1 billion in valuation.<ref name=":0" />
In 2019 Squirrel AI won the GITEX 2019 Best Education Technology Award.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Applications of artificial intelligence#Education|Artifical intelligence in education]]
== References ==
== External links ==
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[[Category:Artificial intelligence applications]]
[[Category:Chinese companies established in 2014]]
China offers incentives for- AI efforts that improve student learning, teacher training or school management. One estimate held that various firms invested over $1 billion invested in AI-based education in 2018.<ref name=":0"></ref>
== Methodology ==
Squirrel uses [[artificial intelligence]] to tailor lesson plans to each individual student.<ref name=":0" /> Chinese researchers have access to the world's largest student databases, which are used to train AI's.<ref name=":0" />
Squirrel works with excellent teachers to identify the most granular possible concepts ("knowledge points") for a course in order to precisely target learning gaps. For example, middle school mathematics is broken into over 10,000 points such as [[rational numbers]], the properties of a [[triangle]], and the [[Pythagorean theorem]]. Each point is linked to related items, forming a "knowledge graph". Each knowledge point is addressed by videos, examples and practice problems. A textbook might address 3,000 points; [[ALEKS]], another adaptive learning platform, uses 1,000. <ref name=":0" />
Each student begins with a diagnostic test to identify where to begin the learning. The system continues to refine its graph as more students proceed. Learning is not student-directed. The system decides the order of topics.
== History ==
The company was founded in 2014 by Derek Li.<ref name=":0" />
By 2019 it had opened 2,000 learning centers in 200 cities and registered over a million students. It intended to open 2,000 additional centers by 2020.<ref name=":0" />
In 2019 the company opened a research lab in a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. The [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]] and the [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]] highlighted AI as an important resource for [[online education]]. In ''Rewiring Education'', [[Apple Inc.|Apple's]] vice president of education John Couch noted Squirrel AI's success.<ref name=":0" />
As of 2019, the company had raised over $180 million in funding and in 2018 it surpassed $1 billion in valuation.<ref name=":0" />
In 2019 Squirrel AI won the GITEX 2019 Best Education Technology Award.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Applications of artificial intelligence#Education|Artifical intelligence in education]]
== References ==
== External links ==
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[[Category:Artificial intelligence applications]]
[[Category:Chinese companies established in 2014]]
January 06, 2020 at 06:19AM
