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Squirrel Ai Learning Sets Guinness World Record for “The most users to take an online mathematics lesson in 24 hours”

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SHANGHAI, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On September 21, 2024, Squirrel Ai Learning hosted a Guinness World Record™ challenge, attracting 112,718 students across China to join an online math lesson. This unprecedented participation secured a new record for “the most users to take an online mathematics lesson in 24 hours”.

The certificate presentation took place during Squirrel Ai Learning’s Annual Marketing Conference on October 29. Guinness World Records official adjudicator Wu Xiaohong awarded the certificate to Wei Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Squirrel Ai Learning, cementing the company’s status as the record holder.

At the ceremony, Ms. Wu said, “It’s a pleasure to be in Lijiang to present Squirrel Ai Learning with the Guinness World Record certificate. On behalf of Guinness World Records, I am proud to announce that Squirrel Ai Learning organized 112,718 participants for an online math lesson in Shanghai from September 21 to 22, 2024, earning the title for the most users to take an online mathematics lesson in 24 hours. Congratulations on this remarkable achievement!”

Mr. Zhou expressed his gratitude to Guinness World Records for the recognition and opportunity, as well as to all Squirrel Ai Learning students who contributed to this historic feat.

As a leading edtech unicorn in China, Squirrel Ai Learning utilized its AI-powered tutoring system during the challenge, enabling over 110,000 students to achieve significant learning milestones and ushering in a new era of AI in education.

Squirrel Ai Learning’s AI Teachers Demonstrate Impressive Learning Outcomes

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s founder, once noted, “The difference between classroom education and one-on-one tutoring is like two standard deviations – unbelievable difference. Most people just can’t afford one-on-one tutoring… If we can combine one-on-one tutoring to every child with the things that only a human teacher can provide, the sort of support, I think that combination is just going to be incredible for education.”

Squirrel Ai Learning shares this vision, and its Guinness World Record challenge, engaging 112,718 students, highlighted AI’s vast potential in education.

At the conference, Dr. Joleen Liang, co-founder of Squirrel Ai Learning, delivered a keynote on the Guinness World Record challenge.

To validate the challenge’s impact, iResearch, a renowned third-party institution, released the Empirical Research report on the Effectiveness of Squirrel Ai Adaptive Learning System: A Guinness Challenge Project.

Squirrel Ai Learning’s AI teachers excelled in personalized instruction, enhancing students’ knowledge mastery, answer accuracy, and overall capability.

Throughout the challenge, Squirrel Ai Learning’s adaptive learning system crafted 108,435 unique learning avenues for 112,718 students, ensuring a tailored educational experience. This personalization allowed the system to align learning strategies closely with individual performance and needs.

The adaptive system designed 111,704 unique exercise pathways for 112,718 students, covering 99.1% of the student population. This nearly one-to-one ratio highlights the system’s exceptional personalized teaching capabilities, ensuring each student receives a customized learning strategy. Dr. Liang noted that the adaptive learning module used throughout the Guinness World Record challenge encompassed just 2 hours of learning and that with more time the personalization rate would undoubtedly reach 100%.

This approach not only addressed knowledge acquisition but also personalized exercise practice, achieving efficient and precise learning outcomes.

The adaptive system’s personalized instruction yielded instant results. iResearch reports significant improvements in students’ knowledge mastery and answer accuracy across both synchronized and supplementary learning modules.

In synchronized learning, the average mastery level soared from 41.6% to 85.1%, a 43.5% increase. Supplementary learning saw a 42.4% improvement, rising from 32.3% to 74.7%.

Answer accuracy also skyrocketed. In synchronized learning, it climbed from 22.1% to 87.0%, a 64.9% jump. Supplementary learning witnessed an astonishing 80.8% increase, rising from just 2.1% to 82.9%.

These findings highlight the adaptive system’s ability to not only improve learning outcomes but also pinpoint knowledge gaps through the supplementary module, ensuring substantial gains in mastery and accuracy after targeted learning.

Furthermore, parents have a keen interest in their children’s skill development.

Within the adaptive learning system, each question is tagged with specific abilities, including numerical intuition, reasoning, symbolic perception, and application.

Using these tags, the system efficiently tracks student performance across various dimensions and evaluates progress in each area pre- and post-learning.

The adaptive system markedly improved students’ learning outcomes, boosting accuracy rates in reasoning and application by 16.8% and 11.6% respectively, highlighting its substantial efficacy in enhancing diverse learning abilities.

Squirrel Ai Learning’s AI teachers, through this challenge, presented a compelling data-driven case study, offering invaluable insights and a strong value proposition for the deployment and proliferation of AI in education.

Squirrel Ai Learning Advances Personalized Learning Innovation

Despite AI’s growing presence in education, China’s AI education landscape faces notable hurdles, with implementation challenges hindering the widespread adoption of personalized learning.

To overcome these barriers and drive AI in education forward, Squirrel Ai Learning has consistently invested heavily in both financial and human resources.

Since its founding, Squirrel Ai Learning has pumped over 2 billion yuan into R&D, utilizing 10+ billion instances of student learning behavior to train and refine the multimodal Large Adaptive Model (LAM). This groundbreaking model marks the world’s first integration of adaptive technology with multimodal capabilities specifically tailored for education.

Leveraging its proprietary adaptive learning system, Squirrel Ai Learning has successfully ventured into the AI hardware realm. Its comprehensive suite includes AI-powered foundational skill development, intelligent diagnostic assessments, in-depth knowledge evaluations, sequential learning, MCM learning strategies, skill mastery training, mistake analysis, spaced repetition, error tracking logs, performance feedback reports, and Level 5 AI-driven interactive teaching capabilities. The technology has earned widespread acclaim from parents, students, and educators.

Meanwhile, Squirrel Ai Learning’s extensive network of physical stores provides robust commercial backing for its multimodal adaptive learning offerings. With 2,000+ smart learning tablet stores across China, Squirrel Ai Learning boasts the largest retail footprint among AI learning device brands in the country.

Looking ahead, Squirrel Ai Learning remains committed to further exploring and expanding the potential of AI in education, striving to grant more children access to top-notch educational resources.

Guinness World Records embodies the spirit of “Beyond the Limits, Achieving Personal Bests”, celebrating the incredible across various domains to help individuals discover their potential and redefine the world. Squirrel Ai Learning embraces this challenge as an opportunity to impart the message of “Pushing Boundaries and Unleashing Potential” to students.

From individual lifelong dreams to collective aspirations of thousands, the tale of record-breaking holds profound inspiration, spurring remarkable achievements worldwide. This resonates with Squirrel Ai Learning’s brand philosophy, as we aspire to empower more children to unlock their potential, continually surpass themselves, and conquer life’s peaks one after another.

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Lexmark Showcases New Printers and Technology Solutions for Retailers at NRF 2025

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NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lexmark, a global imaging and IoT solutions leader, will showcase its cutting-edge, retail-ready printers and solutions at NRF 2025, Retail’s Big Show and Expo, Jan. 12 to 14, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. The Lexmark showcase will be in booth #6321.

“Lexmark kicks off the year with a bang by showcasing our latest 9-Series family of A3 printers and MFPs at NRF for the first time,” said Tim Speller, Lexmark’s head of retail and manufacturing. “These sophisticated devices will usher in a new era of opportunity for retailers to maximize operational efficiency while increasing sales.”

Here’s what will be on display in Lexmark booth #6321:

New Lexmark 9-Series printers and MFPs are designed for challenging retail environments

Built by evolving Lexmark’s renowned A4 technology, the 9-Series delivers versatility, simplicity and sustainability. These solutions are easy to use and manage – perfect for any retail salesfloor or back office.

Key highlights of 9-Series:

Versatile and easy to use. The 9-Series offers a broad range of media size support (A6 to SRA3), high-volume duty cycles, a common set of modular paper-handling options, finishing capabilities and professional color features including PANTONE® calibration.Simple and easy to manage. The 9-Series’ intuitive interface streamlines workflows by providing simple instructions and prompts. For routine maintenance, toner cartridges can be replaced with one hand, easily understood visual cues are displayed, and serviceable areas are easy to access and identify.Sustainable and easy to feel good about. The 9-Series’ total post-consumer recycled (PCR) content is 56% by weight for all base-model MFPs and 73% by weight for the line’s base-model printer, based on IEEE calculation procedures. *Built to last. The 9-Series is designed and built to last seven years or more. Having few components helps reduce the likelihood of technical failure while also minimizing the service time required for repairs and maintenance. Experienced technicians can perform most common service actions, even highly complex tasks, in less than 15 minutes, according to Lexmark testing.

Lexmark Engagement Automation Platform (LEAP) helps retailers drive sales and foot traffic with hyper-local social media ads

LEAP automates one-to-one promotions that drive footfall to local stores. Store leaders can trigger hyper-personalized sale posts and boost ads based on individual store inventory conditions through loyalty program apps and social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. With advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, LEAP provides the insights needed to measure success and make data-driven decisions.

Key highlights of LEAP:

Engagement: To engage shoppers, center promotions around customer buying patterns with an engagement automation platform that posts localized content – such as store-specific offers, events and locally grown produce initiatives.

Automation: Schedule and manage automatic localization and delivery of corporate promotional messaging with an engagement automation platform to reach consumers through social media with hyper-local content around each store or audience region.

Loyalty: Attract local customers with an engagement automation platform that sends store- and corporate-initiated offers to geo-fenced social media apps like Facebook and Instagram and loyalty program applications.

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Learn more about Lexmark’s booth at NRF 2025.

Read Lexmark’s NRF blog.

Schedule a booth meeting with our retail experts during NRF 2025.

Get more details about the Lexmark 9-Series.

Get more details about the Lexmark Engagement Automation Platform (LEAP).

Watch a video about LEAP.

Get the details on NRF 2025.

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About Lexmark

Lexmark creates cloud-enabled imaging and IoT technologies that help customers worldwide quickly realize business outcomes. Through a powerful combination of proven technologies and deep industry expertise, Lexmark accelerates business transformation, turning information into insights, data into decisions, and analytics into action.

Lexmark and the Lexmark logo are trademarks of Lexmark International, Inc., registered in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

* PCR content measured in accordance with IEEE Std 1680.2a™ – 2017 Standard for Environmental Assessment of Imaging Equipment – Amendment 1 — which is the standard used by EPEAT.

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Pricer and Focal Systems Announce Strategic Collaboration to Drive the Next Step in Physical Store Digitalization

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Pricer, a global leader in digital shelf-edge solutions, and Focal Systems, a leader in shelf-edge AI, today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the digitization and optimization of the physical store for retailers worldwide.

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — This collaboration brings together Pricer’s innovations in dynamic pricing and shelf-edge communication with Focal Systems’ advanced computer vision and product availability solutions to maximize shopper satisfaction while optimizing retail operations.

As a pioneer in enabling dynamic pricing and digitizing shelf-edge shopper communication, Pricer has led the first step of the retail digitalization journey. Focal Systems has pioneered the application of computer vision to digitizing what products are available on-shelf or not in near real-time. Together, Pricer and Focal Systems will empower retailers to improve labor efficiency, reduce out-of-stocks, increase sales, and enhance shopper satisfaction like never before.

Enhancing the Shelf Edge Through Collaboration

By integrating Focal Systems’ AI-powered shelf vision cameras with Pricer’s leading electronic shelf label (ESL) platform, retailers will benefit from:

Real-Time Shelf Insights: Automated detection and alerting of out-of-stock or low items powering rapid replenishment and increased shopper satisfactionDynamic Task Automation: Streamlined workflows and prioritized tasks to improve operational efficiency for store staff.Patented Innovation: Camera-based out of stock detection and communication, flashing ESLs, alternate location communication.Seamless Integration: Standardized API connections that deliver out-of-the-box value, offering synchronized ESL flashes, messaging updates, and shelf-edge intelligence.

Together, Pricer and Focal Systems demonstrate that the combined offerings deliver measurable value for the retailers by enabling a fully digitalized shelf-edge ecosystem.

Strategic Collaboration for the Future of Retail

“We are proud to combine our leadership in ESL technology with Focal Systems’ AI-powered shelf vision,” said Chris Chalkitis, CDO at Pricer. “Both companies share a belief in the digitalization of the physical store. Pricer has been a pioneer in dynamic pricing and shelf-edge communication. With Focal Systems, we take the next step, digitizing what’s on the shelf – and what’s not – to drive greater efficiency and performance for retailers.”

Focal Systems’ AI technology transforms retail operations through real-time shelf monitoring and replenishment task optimization.

“Partnering with Pricer, a global leader with groundbreaking ESL technology and innovation, creates tremendous value for retailers,” said Kevin H. Johnson, CEO at Focal Systems. “Together, we deliver an integrated, data-driven solution that reduces operational complexity, automates workflows, and enhances the in-store experience. We look forward to demonstrating this powerful collaboration to retailers and their customers.”

Showcasing the Future at NRF 2025

The collaboration will officially debut at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in January 2025, where Pricer and Focal Systems will showcase the integrated solution at Pricer’s booth. This marks the beginning of an exciting journey to redefine the shelf edge and set new standards for retail innovation.

For further information, please contact:
Chris Chalkitis, Chief Digital Officer, +46 70 4849812
Finn Wikander, Chief Product Officer, +46 705 233077
info@pricer.com

About Pricer

Pricer is a leading global provider of digital shelf-edge solutions, helping retailers optimize pricing, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the customer experience. With patented innovations like camera-based product identification by ESL, Pricer continues to set the standard for dynamic, intelligent shelf-edge solutions. For more information, visit www.pricer.com.

About Focal Systems

Focal Systems is a leading provider of AI-powered computer vision solutions, helping retailers automate operations and optimize product availability through real-time shelf monitoring. Its advanced technology delivers actionable insights that drive efficiency and profitability. For more information, visit www.focal.systems.

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Blue Owl Capital Expands Tennis Player Sponsorship to All Grand Slam Tournaments in 2025

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Blue Owl to place logo patches on dozens of athletes competing across the Australian Open,
French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open

Jordan Thompson named as Blue Owl’s dedicated athlete ambassador for the Australian Open

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Owl Capital Inc. (“Blue Owl”) (NYSE: OWL), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today a marquee sponsorship agreement to expand their presence at all Grand Slam tournaments in 2025 and become the exclusive financial services partner for professional tennis’ Player Patch Program.

Blue Owl’s logo will be featured on the shirt of select players competing across men’s singles, women’s singles, mixed doubles, men’s doubles and women’s doubles competitions at this year’s Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open tournaments. In addition to Blue Owl’s presence on the courts, the firm will be featured in iconic Melbourne transit hubs, social media and digital media during the Australian Open in an effort to raise brand awareness within the country and the broader APAC market.

Blue Owl Chief Marketing Officer Suzanne Escousse said, “Just as Blue Owl is redefining alternative investing, we are supporting established and emerging professional players who are redefining the game of tennis. Tennis is a truly worldwide sport requiring peak performance in critical, high-pressure moments. This is the same ethos that underpins Blue Owl and allows us to focus on delivering results for our international client base. Following the success of our involvement with the Patch Program at the 2024 US Open, and given Blue Owl’s established presence within the country, Australia is the perfect place to kick off our presence across Grand Slam tournaments.”

Blue Owl has also partnered with Australian tennis professional Jordan Thompson, who will serve as the firm’s Athlete Ambassador at the 2025 Australian Open – January 12-26 in Melbourne. Most recently, Thompson won the men’s doubles at the 2024 US Open, where he was wearing a Blue Owl patch, and was a men’s doubles finalist at Wimbledon in 2024. He has also registered victories over several top-10-ranked opponents in singles competitions and previously represented Australia at the Olympics and the Davis Cup. Thompson will be one of several competitors wearing Blue Owl’s logo throughout the tournament.

Jordan Thompson said: “Blue Owl is focused on delivering excellence for its clients, which makes it a great fit for a partnership with professional tennis players. Support from firms like Blue Owl is tremendously beneficial for players who are preparing for career-defining events, especially the four Grand Slams. Our shared core values, including striving for success in every step of our journeys, whether that be in the financial services industry or competing as a professional athlete, is a perfect match. Alongside my coaches, my doubles teammate(s) and tennis fans, Blue Owl will play a key role for me here in Melbourne at the 2025 Australian Open.”

About Blue Owl

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives.

With $235 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2024, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, GP Strategic Capital, and Real Estate. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with over 1,050 experienced professionals, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit www.blueowl.com.

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Nick Theccanat
Principal, Corporate Communications & Government Affairs
Nick.Theccanat@blueowl.com

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