World-class academic backbone
Backed by Duke and Duke Kunshan, we tap a global professor and alumni network to convert frontier AI research into working industry solutions — fast.
YAS-AI works on education from two sides: AI software for schools and teachers, and knowledge videos for curious learners in Chinese, English and Spanish. Incubated at Duke Kunshan University, built by top young talent from leading Sino-foreign universities.
Custom software for schools and teachers: intelligent grading, learning platforms, AI tutors, digital humans and translation copilots.
Explore software →Short explainers that answer one everyday “why” at a time, every fact sourced, in Chinese, English and Spanish on Bilibili, Douyin, YouTube and TikTok.
Explore content →YAS-AI (Shanghai YAS Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.) is an innovation-driven AI company incubated by Duke Kunshan University. Our team brings together top alumni and current students from DKU, XJTLU, NYU Shanghai and other leading Sino-foreign joint universities.
We translate frontier AI research into reliable products — guided by a senior advisor network and shipped by an agile young team that moves fast without losing rigor.
A network of professors, alumni, and students powering every engagement.
Backed by Duke and Duke Kunshan, we tap a global professor and alumni network to convert frontier AI research into working industry solutions — fast.
An agile team keeps overhead low without compromising delivery quality. Every dollar goes into product surface, not bloat.
Built for education, by educators-in-training. Deep operational understanding of EdTech workflows — from LMS to assessment to AI tutors.
End-to-end AI product development, with student teams shadowing senior engineers and university experts on call.
Tailored AI applications, from concept to deployment.
LMS, assessment systems, and learning analytics.
Domain-specific agents using Dify, LangGraph, Coze.
RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering.
Historical and educational AI avatars with personality.
AWS-native delivery, scalable from prototype to production.
GradeNow is an AI-powered grading assistant for K-12 teachers that slashes daily grading from ~2 hours to 12 minutes. AI pre-scores assignments based on teacher rubrics; teachers review and approve — keeping full control.
A multi-role learning platform serving students, instructors, supervisors and admins — with AI features baked into course objects, recordings, and assessments.


Upload PDFs, DOCX, or notes — generate personalized quizzes against custom learning objectives, on schedule.

An AI digital-human chat experience that lets students converse with historical figures drawn from a curated academic knowledge base.

A side-by-side workspace that suggests faithful and fluent translations of classical Chinese texts, with rationale and confidence scores.
Why is everyday life the way it is? Our videos take the things people run into every day, explain how they work and how they got that way, and give an answer clear enough to retell to a friend in one sentence.
Each video answers one concrete question and gets to the point in the first few seconds.
Scripts are researched from primary sources. Where figures differ, we pick one and say which; stories that are only legend are labelled as legend.
Chinese, English and Spanish versions are written separately, each opening with examples its own viewers know.
Every line of narration comes with something new on screen: diagrams, timelines and objects that move with the explanation.
When news breaks, such as the 2026 Nobel Prizes, we publish a clear explainer while people are still searching for one.
We make explainer videos for schools and education brands, in one language or all three, as shorts or long-form.
Everyday history and this year's Nobel Prizes, each made as a long-form explainer and a set of shorts.

Most national days were picked after the fact: Iceland chose its date before founding the republic, and Czechia still celebrates a country that no longer exists.

A green alga's light-sensitive gate lets scientists switch chosen nerve cells on and off within milliseconds.

How a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice became a telescope for neutrinos, the hardest particles in the universe to catch.

Left-handed molecules led by one in two million, and three rounds later they made up over 99.5%.
Co-organized with the DKU AI Club, partnered with industry leaders.
Hosted by China Computer Federation, with the DKU AI Club. High-school students built professional LLM API pricing models on Amazon Bedrock — no prior AI background required.
A roundtable bringing together Microsoft, Intel, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Duke, Westlake, and AWS directors to chart sustainable progress in the AI era.
YAS-AI organized a Yangtze-Delta cohort of professors and students for the AWS Summit — sourcing high-potential opportunities across education, energy, and manufacturing.
100+ participants from Sino-foreign universities, 36 hours of intense building. We invited AWS to introduce Amazon Q Developer — shipping more, faster.
Tell us what you're building. We'll come back with a proposal — and usually a working prototype within weeks.
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