Ai Shifu

This platform is an open source AI teaching agent that turns an instructor's material into one on one tutoring. A creator supplies expertise and teaching intent once, as a lesson framework or syllabus, and the system expands it into complete lessons, activities and assessments, then adapts explanations, tone and pacing in real time to each learner's background, goals and level. It is built for course creators, educators and corporate training teams. Capabilities include a personalized explanation engine, interactive questioning that breaks problems down and asks clarifying questions, rapid course assembly from high level outlines, and embedding in websites, course platforms and enterprise training portals. The project is developed by its own team together with the Research Center of Intelligent Software Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology, and its public site hosts AI guided courses written by human experts, including an interactive lesson on understanding and directing AI by founder Sun Zhigang, a former associate professor at that university. A knowledge base and speech input and output are on the published roadmap. The source code is free under the Apache 2.0 license and can be self hosted with Docker Compose, using an API key from a model provider such as OpenAI, ERNIE or BigModel. No pricing is published for the hosted platform or its courses. The hosted site is oriented partly toward Chinese users: its interface mixes English and Chinese text, and it lists WeCom and a WeChat service account alongside email as support channels. Despite its listing among coding tools, it is an education product rather than a developer tool.