--- description: Find out why Squirrel Ai Intelligent Adaptive Learning System is on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions. title: Squirrel Ai Intelligent Adaptive Learning System: The Best Inventions of 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6943c02be33b235d/6998ca3807a30d6ebe77d5e5/squirrel-ai-intelligent-adaptive-learning-system-TIME-best-inventions-2025-1.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 09, 2025 # Squirrel Ai Intelligent Adaptive Learning System Personalized AI lesson plans by [Kali Hays](/author/kali-hays/) ## Kali Hays Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Courtesy Squirrel Ai Learning Squirrel Ai’s platform is based on what it calls a “large adaptive model,” a combination of education-specific AI systems, trained and evaluated by human educators and students in Pre-K through 12th grade. The company has been educating more than 24 million students in China with its AI tutoring—in some cases [fully supplanting](https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/02/131198/china-squirrel-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the/ "undefined") in-person lessons—and is now [expanding into the U.S.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-18/ai-in-schools-a-chinese-entrepreneur-is-betting-on-algorithms-as-teachers "undefined") Unlike other AI learning tools that partner with schools, Squirrel operates its own learning centers that use AI to personalize each student’s lesson plan and testing. The company’s expansion may be buoyed, in part, by a severe shortage of teachers: In the U.S.; an [estimated 400,000](https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/addressing-teacher-shortages-insights-four-states "undefined") open teaching positions went unfilled last year. “Our LAM engine acts as a really good teacher, someone who’s been a teacher for 20 or 30 years,” claims Joleen Liang, president of Squirrel’s U.S. division. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318298/squirrel-ai-intelligent-adaptive-learning-system/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318298/squirrel-ai-intelligent-adaptive-learning-system/"},"headline":"Squirrel Ai Intelligent Adaptive Learning System","datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:49.199Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318298/squirrel-ai-intelligent-adaptive-learning-system/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","Best Inventions 2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6943c02be33b235d/6998ca3807a30d6ebe77d5e5/squirrel-ai-intelligent-adaptive-learning-system-TIME-best-inventions-2025-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kali Hays","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kali-hays/"}],"creator":"Kali Hays","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6943c02be33b235d/6998ca3807a30d6ebe77d5e5/squirrel-ai-intelligent-adaptive-learning-system-TIME-best-inventions-2025-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318298/squirrel-ai-intelligent-adaptive-learning-system/","name":"Squirrel Ai Intelligent Adaptive Learning System"}}]}] ```