Incubated at Duke Kunshan University

AI Education, built by a new generation.

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.

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An AI startup with a campus heartbeat.

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.

Mission
Education first. Customers always. AI for progress.
DKUDuke Kunshan University
DukeDuke University, USA
XJTLUXi'an Jiaotong–Liverpool University
NYU SHNYU Shanghai

A network of professors, alumni, and students powering every engagement.

Three reasons teams choose YAS-AI.

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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.

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High value, lean delivery

An agile team keeps overhead low without compromising delivery quality. Every dollar goes into product surface, not bloat.

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Education-domain expertise

Built for education, by educators-in-training. Deep operational understanding of EdTech workflows — from LMS to assessment to AI tutors.

AI software for teaching and learning.

End-to-end AI product development, with student teams shadowing senior engineers and university experts on call.

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Custom AI Software

Tailored AI applications, from concept to deployment.

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EdTech Platforms

LMS, assessment systems, and learning analytics.

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AI Agents & Copilots

Domain-specific agents using Dify, LangGraph, Coze.

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LLM Integration

RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering.

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Digital Humans

Historical and educational AI avatars with personality.

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Cloud & Deployment

AWS-native delivery, scalable from prototype to production.

Shipped products, real users.

In closed beta
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Batch capture / PDF import
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AI pre-grades with rubric
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Teacher reviews & approves
GradeNow · AI快批

Grade 10× faster with AI

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.

  • 99%+ accuracy on objective questions via OCR + layout parsing
  • AI draft scores & comments for subjective items
  • Class analytics: error distribution & misconception clustering
  • WeChat Mini Program · iOS · Android
gradenow.site →
Learning Management System

A modern LMS for the AI era

A multi-role learning platform serving students, instructors, supervisors and admins — with AI features baked into course objects, recordings, and assessments.

  • Multi-role dashboards with real-time activity
  • Bilingual UI (EN/中文) out of the box
  • AI-assisted course material processing
LMS dashboard
AI quiz generator
AI Quiz Generation

From lecture notes to a full assessment

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

Historical AI avatar
AI Digital Human

Historical figures, brought to life

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

VerseCraft translation copilot
Classical Literature AI

VerseCraft — classical Chinese translation copilot

A side-by-side workspace that suggests faithful and fluent translations of classical Chinese texts, with rationale and confidence scores.

Knowledge videos for curious minds.

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.

3languages: Chinese, English, Spanish
6channels on Bilibili, Douyin, YouTube and TikTok
30–60 svertical shorts
3–5 minlong-form explainers
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One question per video

Each video answers one concrete question and gets to the point in the first few seconds.

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Every fact sourced

Scripts are researched from primary sources. Where figures differ, we pick one and say which; stories that are only legend are labelled as legend.

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Three languages, three audiences

Chinese, English and Spanish versions are written separately, each opening with examples its own viewers know.

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Animated, line by line

Every line of narration comes with something new on screen: diagrams, timelines and objects that move with the explanation.

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Timely explainers

When news breaks, such as the 2026 Nobel Prizes, we publish a clear explainer while people are still searching for one.

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Explainer videos for partners

We make explainer videos for schools and education brands, in one language or all three, as shorts or long-form.

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Our channels

One channel in three languages. Its mascot's face is ∵, the maths sign for “because”, which is the whole idea: everything has a reason.

原来有因
Chinese
There's a Reason
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Por Algo Será
Spanish

Recent videos.

Everyday history and this year's Nobel Prizes, each made as a long-form explainer and a set of shorts.

Everyday history

How Countries Pick Their National Day

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.

Nobel Prize 2026 · Medicine

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Explained in 4 Minutes

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

Nobel Prize 2026 · Physics

The First Solo Physics Nobel in 34 Years Went to a Cubic Kilometre of Ice

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

Nobel Prize 2026 · Chemistry

One Extra Molecule Took Over: the 2026 Chemistry Nobel, Explained

Left-handed molecules led by one in two million, and three rounds later they made up over 99.5%.

We don't just build — we convene.

Co-organized with the DKU AI Club, partnered with industry leaders.

CCF event

CCF · HK–Suzhou twin-city forum

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.

Sustainability summit

New Productive Forces & Sustainable Development

A roundtable bringing together Microsoft, Intel, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Duke, Westlake, and AWS directors to chart sustainable progress in the AI era.

AWS Summit

AWS Summit · Shanghai 2025

YAS-AI organized a Yangtze-Delta cohort of professors and students for the AWS Summit — sourcing high-potential opportunities across education, energy, and manufacturing.

HackDKU

HackDKU · Duke Kunshan Hackathon

100+ participants from Sino-foreign universities, 36 hours of intense building. We invited AWS to introduce Amazon Q Developer — shipping more, faster.

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Based in Shanghai · Kunshan, China