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Photo homework solver across subjects
East Asia · country & exam lens
AI learning in China
A market walled off by language and a domestic internet — and reshaped overnight by regulation, a risk axis no US/UK list captures.
Exam systems
- Gaokao — The National College Entrance Examination (13M+ candidates), the single most consequential exam.
- Zhongkao — The high-school entrance exam that streams students into academic vs vocational tracks.
Languages of the classroom
Mandarin-medium instruction and exam; the competitive set is entirely home-grown, with Western platforms effectively absent.
Price points
Core-subject tutoring is now policy-suppressed; demand shifted to hardware and grey-market 1-to-1. Specific rate cards are [TBD] (regulated and opaque).
How students reach it (delivery channel)
Heavily device-mediated — AI learning tablets and hardware — after the 2021 'Double Reduction' policy restricted for-profit tutoring of core subjects.
How it’s used
The 2021 crackdown forced survivors to pivot to hardware and non-academic products.
Built for this exam
Squirrel AI — Adaptive tutoring that decomposes subjects into fine 'knowledge points', delivered via smart tablets.
Yuanfudao — A free photo-solver funnel that pivoted to study hardware after 2021.
Zuoyebang — A Baidu-origin photo-search homework tool, now hardware and 'quality education'.