BEIJING, Dec. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The “2025 Forbes China Education Summit,” organized by Forbes China, successfully convened, reaffirming its status as a leading industry event in the educational sector. This summit employs a multi-dimensional evaluation system to identify industry benchmarks, with its awards serving as critical reference points for assessing industry value. Xu Yihan, Senior Executive Vice President of Squirrel AI Intelligent Tutor, was honored with the “2025 Forbes China Education Industry Influential Education Figure Award” for her ongoing contributions to AI education. Previously, Squirrel AI’s self-developed All-Subject Multimodal Adaptive Education Large Model was named in Time Magazine’s 2025 Best Inventions list, underscoring a dual recognition for both individual and organizational achievements in the rapidly evolving Chinese EdTech landscape.
Recognition of Industry Value Behind the Honor
The Forbes selection process emphasizes innovative contributions and thought leadership within the education sector, employing a comprehensive framework that highlights both strength and the momentum necessary for high-quality industry evolution. Xu Yihan’s award reflects her sustained investment in integrating AI technology with educational practices, aligning closely with the award’s core evaluation criteria: thought leadership, industry driving force, and social responsibility. Upon receiving the award, Xu remarked, “This honor is not only an affirmation of long-term dedication to the AI education track but also a recognition of the philosophy of ‘technology empowering educational equity.’ The essence of education is to awaken growth potential…”
Xu Yihan’s influence has also been recognized internationally; she was recently awarded the “2025 Thought Leadership Award” by The CEO Views, an American business magazine, highlighting her extensive impact in AI education. This particular accolade underscores global business leadership, focusing on trend forecasting and practical value rather than mere enterprise scale or performance metrics.
At the organizational level, Squirrel AI’s All-Subject Multimodal Adaptive Education Large Model was acknowledged in Time’s prestigious list, which evaluates originality, effectiveness, and impact, making it one of a select few EdTech products featured. Squirrel AI has been recognized in several authoritative rankings, including the MIT Technology Review’s “50 Smartest Companies” (TR50) list, UNESCO’s AI Education Innovation Award, and the CB Insights AI 100 list. Moreover, founder Li Haoyang plays a vital role as Chair of the IEEE Artificial Intelligence Education Large Model Standards Working Group, highlighting the company’s commitment to technological advancement and industry standards.
Solid Technical Foundation Supports Personalized Teaching
The accolades reflect Squirrel AI Intelligent Tutor’s deep-rooted technical expertise in AI education, particularly through its All-Subject Multimodal Adaptive Education Large Model. This robust model is built on extensive data and expert teaching knowledge, effectively integrating over 20 billion learning behavior data points and the insights from hundreds of senior educators. This data-driven approach ensures tailored educational experiences that meet diverse learning needs.
Li Haoyang emphasizes a student-centric educational philosophy, asserting that individual learning paths should be as unique as the students themselves. The model effectively captures nuanced user data, such as student response patterns and emotional cues, through advanced algorithms. This leads to a comprehensive teaching process characterized by “diagnosis-planning-feedback-optimization,” allowing personalized instruction to flourish in scalable environments.
In addition to enhancing student learning, the model supports teachers by automating repetitive tasks like homework assessments and learning situation analysis. This approach liberates educators to concentrate on core teaching responsibilities, fostering deeper student engagement and critical thinking. The synergy of “intelligent tutor + human teacher” optimizes both student learning experiences and teaching efficiencies.
Practical Implementation Empowers Educational Equity
While technical innovation lays the groundwork, Xu Yihan’s leadership drives practical implementations that meet real market needs. Her team has pioneered a cooperative business model that facilitates access to high-quality AI educational resources, particularly for students and schools in underserved regions. As a result, Squirrel AI Intelligent Tutor has forged partnerships with over 60,000 public schools across China, benefitting more than 43 million students and expanding its service framework with approximately 3,000 offline partner stores.
Squirrel AI is committed to educational equity, pledging to provide free access to its system for children from the world’s 20% lowest-income families. This initiative aims to dismantle resource barriers stemming from geographic and economic disparities, ensuring that all children can access quality education. Such commitments showcase the company’s dedication to its social responsibilities as an EdTech leader, aiming to extend the transformative potential of AI education to a broader audience.
Looking ahead, Squirrel AI Intelligent Tutor aims to enhance its All-Subject Multimodal Adaptive Education Large Model further while pursuing global market expansion. The company plans to adapt its innovative solutions to educational scenarios in various countries, sharing China’s practical experiences in AI education. Xu Yihan concluded, “We will continue to uphold the original intention of intelligent education, deepen technological innovation, and steadily promote practical implementation, allowing the actual value of AI education to enter more classrooms and benefit more teachers and students.”
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