Since May 2023, Zuoyebang has launched Question AI, a big model-based AIGC learning product in the U.S., Indonesia, and other places,（according to DuoZhong.com.cn.） Officially, it is positioned as a "question and answer and homework assistant," which allows students to It is officially positioned as a "Q&A and homework assistant" that allows students to solve homework problems by scanning, covering subjects such as math, history, biology, English, physics, and chemistry.
Since 2022, Zuoyebang has been quietly preparing for its overseas business. Today, Question AI's weekly active users in the North American market alone are close to 2 million, and the official said that "it is the choice of more than 10 million users".
The official website shows that Question AI belongs to the company D3 DIMENSION TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. This is a company registered in Singapore. According to the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA) information, the company was founded in July 2022, and the founder and CEO of Zuoyebang, Hou Jianbin, and co-founder Li Boyang are both company directors.
Earlier than the registration of overseas companies, as early as March 2022, Zuoyebang is recruiting overseas product operations for overseas projects, the basic requirements of the candidates are Indonesians or Malaysians. Today, Zuoyebang is still recruiting teaching and research for overseas projects continuously.
From the point of view of the download volume, according to data.ai data, as of March 20, 2024, in the past month, in the United States region, iOS downloaded the highest number of education applications, Question AI ranked third, after the multi-neighboring countries and Gauth (ByteDance's overseas education products).
The layout of Southeast Asian countries, on the other hand, is because, from the cultural and geographic point of view, Southeast Asia is close to China, with a young demographic structure and a large demographic dividend. Take Indonesia as an example. In terms of GDP and population, Indonesia is one of the largest economies in Southeast Asia (GDP growth rate of 5.05% in 2023, GDP per capita at around $5,000), with a large population base (Indonesia's population of 275.5 million as of the end of 2022 is the world's fourth-largest country in terms of population) and a youthful demographic structure (per capita age of around 30 years old), and a young and large labor force that makes its competitive advantage in terms of labor costs.
In terms of Internet infrastructure, according to the Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association, Indonesia will have 215 million Internet users in 2024, with nearly 70% of the population in younger age groups and an overall Internet penetration rate of 79.5%.
Analysts point out that the COVID-19 pandemic has produced an unexpected boost to online education, and Chinese online education companies, with the advantages they have accumulated in China, have quite a promising future in the Southeast Asian market.