A cumulative total of more than 43 million students in China and worldwide have enrolled on Squirrel Ai, which is designed to use adaptive learning to teach students exactly what they need at their own pace and to progress much further and faster than they otherwise might.T
he rapid growth of the company, which also now has its sights set on the United States, underlines how artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in Chinese education, with a heavy push from a government that is keen not only to get children to use AI to improve their performance, but also to master the technology behind it.