Discovery Turing(Tanzhi Tuling,探知图灵), a Chinese edtech startup focusing on AI-based curriculum and school-enterprise cooperation, announced recently that it has raised several million yuan in its series A round of financing.
This round was led by Shaanxi Roermond International Trade Co., Ltd., a bulk coal trading group.
According to Xu Wei, the founder, and CEO of Exploring Turing, the fresh capital will be mainly used for business expansion in terms of industries including energy, rail transit, remote sensing surveying and mapping, etc.
Previously, the edtech company had received angel investment from the Institute for Interdisciplinary (Information Core Technology) founded by Academician Yao Qizhi, a Turing prize winner, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of the Institute of cross information research of Tsinghua University, as the chief professor.
The startup was incubated by the School of Artificial Intelligence of Xidian University, and Professor Jiao Licheng, a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, served as its chief scientist. The startup makes great efforts to transform the academic achievements of Artificial Intelligence of Xidian University into products and solutions in education, energy, rail transit, and other industries.
Discovery Turing's first educational product originated from China’s first self-developed artificial intelligence education innovation experiment jointly released in 2019 with the Ministry of Education's key projects. At present, the company has developed AI-based curriculum systems for undergraduates, higher vocational schools, and middle schools, as well as artificial intelligence training platforms, embedded AI experiment boxes, etc. The startup also provides teaching staff training and student internships for schools and the current cooperative colleges and universities have reached nearly 100. To note, Discovery Turing is also exploring ChatGPT-related technologies for the industry and will be launched shortly.
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