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.

An AI university has been established in Abu Dhabi, in what is being billed as a world first for artificial intelligence studies. Earlier this month, it was announced that the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has been established in Abu Dhabi, the first graduate level, research-based AI university globally. The AI university will enable graduate students, businesses, and governments to advance artificial intelligence. The university's name comes from His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. MBZUAI intends to introduce a new model of academia and research to the field of AI, with a view to provide students and faculty access to some of the world's most advanced AI systems to unleash its potential for economic and societal development.