iFlytek Brings Teacher Agents and AI Marking Hardware to China’s Largest Education Equipment Show
iFlytek (002230.SZ) used the opening of the 88th China Education Equipment Exhibition in Changsha on 30 October to show how far its education AI has moved past single-point tools. More than 700 companies are exhibiting at the three-day event, whose theme this year is "AI-led high-quality development of education equipment". iFlytek exhibited under the banner "safer AI, AI that understands education", spanning teaching and learning, science education, physical and mental health, regional governance and home study.
On the hardware side, the Tongchuang AI blackboard runs on iFlytek’s Spark education model and combines audio-visual balancing, natural interaction, digital teaching, panoramic virtual presenters and multimodal lesson recording and analysis, letting teachers replay a lesson to review their own practice. The Spark M50 marking machine integrates scanning, AI grading, annotation printed back onto the original paper and learning analytics: it can batch-mark a whole class’s work in as little as five minutes, then produce class-level reports and lecture notes that surface frequent errors, shared misconceptions and mastery by knowledge point.
The company’s argument is that marking should shift from a one-off check to a teaching diagnostic, so that correction, analysis, review and follow-up practice link up and teachers spend more time on students’ thinking and individual support. It also showed smart classroom, learning-analytics, AI speaking and AI English products covering daily instruction and language practice.
The centrepiece for teachers is Xingguang (Starlight), a "super agent" framed as a one-stop AI workbench. Teachers describe what they need in natural language and receive H5 interactive courseware — scenario inquiry, animated picture books, geometry demonstrations, gamified drills — without writing code; material sourced from Bilibili, Douyin and Xiaohongshu is filtered and source-labelled, and any resource can be converted into a teaching app that feeds learning data back for more precise instruction.
For teaching research, iFlytek worked with Professor Wei Rui’s team at Beijing Normal University on an intelligent mentor that walks teachers through project-based learning design step by step, backed by staged courses at Xingguang Academy. Xingguang also connects to iFlytek’s Zhixuewang platform and to WeChat, QQ and DingTalk, and remembers a teacher’s subject, textbook edition and preparation preferences. To date the assistant has 300,000 registered teachers, more than 100,000 of whom have co-created AI resources, over 30 master-teacher studios onboarded and more than 200,000 teachers trained in AI literacy; iFlytek says it removes 60–80% of teachers’ administrative workload.
On the student side, the science education solution rests on a science-specific model and virtual-real digital experiment resources, moving science learning from memorisation to evidence-based inquiry, while the AI curriculum follows an "experience – cognition – practice – innovation" path across all school stages. The Qisi Miaowen "curiosity window" replaces direct answers with heuristic dialogue and a digital human, encouraging students to keep asking. Smart PE teaching terminals, an AI sports assistant and mental-health tools including the Xinyu counselling room were also on display.
For regional authorities, iFlytek showed Xingshu, an education data foundation designed to let schools assemble digital applications on demand, and Yuxingtu, a whole-student evaluation and portrait system covering moral, academic, physical, aesthetic and labour development. The new Lingji N9000, a domestically built AI PC with system-level security and offline private-office capability, targets campus data-compliance requirements; paired with Xingguang it extends AI terminals from generic office work into teaching-specific scenarios.
On the hardware side, the Tongchuang AI blackboard runs on iFlytek’s Spark education model and combines audio-visual balancing, natural interaction, digital teaching, panoramic virtual presenters and multimodal lesson recording and analysis, letting teachers replay a lesson to review their own practice. The Spark M50 marking machine integrates scanning, AI grading, annotation printed back onto the original paper and learning analytics: it can batch-mark a whole class’s work in as little as five minutes, then produce class-level reports and lecture notes that surface frequent errors, shared misconceptions and mastery by knowledge point.
The company’s argument is that marking should shift from a one-off check to a teaching diagnostic, so that correction, analysis, review and follow-up practice link up and teachers spend more time on students’ thinking and individual support. It also showed smart classroom, learning-analytics, AI speaking and AI English products covering daily instruction and language practice.
The centrepiece for teachers is Xingguang (Starlight), a "super agent" framed as a one-stop AI workbench. Teachers describe what they need in natural language and receive H5 interactive courseware — scenario inquiry, animated picture books, geometry demonstrations, gamified drills — without writing code; material sourced from Bilibili, Douyin and Xiaohongshu is filtered and source-labelled, and any resource can be converted into a teaching app that feeds learning data back for more precise instruction.
For teaching research, iFlytek worked with Professor Wei Rui’s team at Beijing Normal University on an intelligent mentor that walks teachers through project-based learning design step by step, backed by staged courses at Xingguang Academy. Xingguang also connects to iFlytek’s Zhixuewang platform and to WeChat, QQ and DingTalk, and remembers a teacher’s subject, textbook edition and preparation preferences. To date the assistant has 300,000 registered teachers, more than 100,000 of whom have co-created AI resources, over 30 master-teacher studios onboarded and more than 200,000 teachers trained in AI literacy; iFlytek says it removes 60–80% of teachers’ administrative workload.
On the student side, the science education solution rests on a science-specific model and virtual-real digital experiment resources, moving science learning from memorisation to evidence-based inquiry, while the AI curriculum follows an "experience – cognition – practice – innovation" path across all school stages. The Qisi Miaowen "curiosity window" replaces direct answers with heuristic dialogue and a digital human, encouraging students to keep asking. Smart PE teaching terminals, an AI sports assistant and mental-health tools including the Xinyu counselling room were also on display.
For regional authorities, iFlytek showed Xingshu, an education data foundation designed to let schools assemble digital applications on demand, and Yuxingtu, a whole-student evaluation and portrait system covering moral, academic, physical, aesthetic and labour development. The new Lingji N9000, a domestically built AI PC with system-level security and offline private-office capability, targets campus data-compliance requirements; paired with Xingguang it extends AI terminals from generic office work into teaching-specific scenarios.
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