ByteDance to launch AI teacher by 2020 Global Education Times

Chinese internet company ByteDance is set to release a 24-hour artificial intelligence (AI) teacher for K-12 students in China by 2020. In 2018, ByteDance challenged the Tencent-backed VIPKid when they launched Gogokid, an online English teaching platform. Then, in May 2019, the company officially released an online education portal offering mathematics and language courses for K-12, taught by graduates of Peking and Tsinghua universities, the top two universities in China. Since July this year, ByteDance has focused on testing a new English learning application, Tangyuan English, which features a mode using a combination'AI real person' teaching workout. This marks the third English language learning product by ByteDance, following Open Language and Dubaibeidanci.