LAIX Inc. is an artificial intelligence (AI) company in China that creates and delivers products and services to popularize English learning.
Our founders identified the industry's key pain points and offer a groundbreaking new approach to education. Since our inception in 2013, we have built our AI‐powered Liulishuo platform to deliver a user‐centric, personalized and effective English learning experience accessible to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Our model is cost‐effective, enabling us to offer affordable course packages at a massive scale.
We have built our AI teacher incorporating the key characteristics and core functions of high‐quality, effective teachers. We conducted deep analysis of and integrated into our products the pedagogies developed by the world's leading educational experts and cognitive scientists. Our AI teacher was built on cutting‐edge proprietary AI technologies that provide personalized teaching and guidance for all core components of a student's language learning process, encompassing learning, practice, assessment and feedback. Our AI teacher can hear, understand, interact with and evaluate the performance of our users and has the ability to understand their learning needs. Leveraging our massive volume of smart user data, our AI teacher continuously evolves and delivers more personally tailored learning programs to each user.
We were named on the list of “The 100 Most Promising Private Artificial Intelligence Companies in the World” for 2018 by CB Insights and were one of seven companies from China on the list and the only Chinese company out of the two in the education category globally. We were also named on the list of “50 Most Innovative Companies” for 2018 by Forbes China.