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TAL Education Group (好未来教育集团)

TAL needed production-grade AI infrastructure and large-model tooling that could train, validate, secure, and deploy its self-developed MathGPT model quickly enough for real education products, while keeping resource efficiency and ROI under control.

80% of math questions can be answered instantly
AI video explanation can be generated within 20 minutes
effective training time can exceed 98%
human explanation video can be uploaded within 1 hour

Reported impact

Business outcome

TAL shortened the path from model development to classroom productization, improved learning-device experiences, and gained an AI foundation that can answer most math questions instantly while controlling compute efficiency and operational risk.

  • Productivity Improvement
  • Scalability
  • Speed to Market

Solution

Baidu AI Cloud supported TAL's self-developed MathGPT model with a high-performance training and serving stack built around the Baige AI heterogeneous computing platform and the Qianfan large-model platform. Baige supplied the cloud-native AI compute layer for large-scale deep-learning workloads, including cluster operations, task lifecycle management, training and inference acceleration, fault tolerance, and intelligent fault diagnosis. TAL used that environment to start projects quickly, validate base-model choices, and iterate MathGPT efficiently with its own educational data and business feedback. On the model-development side, TAL emphasized Qianfan's full-stack workflow support, efficient supervised fine-tuning, plugin extensibility, and security controls, while Baidu also contributed a lifecycle-oriented large-model security solution derived from ERNIE practices. The resulting platform let TAL move from training and validation into real product deployment on the xPad learning device, where MathGPT powers interactive math help and other AI education tools.

Data flow

Educational data and business feedback are used to validate and fine-tune MathGPT on Baige and Qianfan, accelerated training and inference pipelines prepare the model for production, and the tuned model is embedded into xPad learning workflows to answer math questions, generate AI explanations, and support other study tools.

Solution architecture

3 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • Baige AI Heterogeneous Computing Platform Provides the cloud-native AI compute, cluster operations, acceleration, and fault-tolerant runtime that TAL uses to train and validate MathGPT.
  2. Orchestration
    • Qianfan Large Model Platform Supplies the full-stack large-model development workflow, SFT tuning, plugin support, and service runtime used to adapt MathGPT to education scenarios.
  3. Governance
    • Large Model Security Solution Adds security controls across training, fine-tuning, inference, deployment, and business operations for TAL's education-facing large-model services.

Architecture clues

  • Baige supports training and inference acceleration, fault tolerance, and intelligent fault diagnosis for large-model workloads.
  • MathGPT is delivered into TAL's xPad hardware as a production teaching assistant rather than remaining a lab-only model.
  • The security design covers training, fine-tuning, inference, deployment, and model operations from a lifecycle perspective.

Evidence from the source

Baidu AI Cloud used the Baige AI heterogeneous computing platform to build high-performance AI infrastructure for TAL's self-developed MathGPT model. (original: 百度智能云联合大模型落地教育场景先行者好未来,运用功能丰富、性能卓越的百度百舸·AI 异构计算平台,为好未来自研“九章大模型(MathGPT)”提供关键支撑。)
Baige provides cluster operations, lifecycle task management, training and inference acceleration, fault tolerance, and intelligent fault diagnosis, with effective training time above 98%. (original: 百度百舸·AI 异构计算平台...为模型算法专家和运维专家提供全面的集群运维支持和任务全生命周期管理,同时具备训练 / 推理加速、故障容错、智能故障诊断等高级功能,有效训练时长可达 98% 以上。)
MathGPT on the xPad can answer 80% of math questions immediately, upload a human explanation video within one hour for unanswered questions, and generate an AI video explanation within 20 minutes. (original: 基于九章大模型(MathGPT)的“数学随时问”,可以实现对 80% 的数学题即问即答,暂时不能回答的最快可在一小时内上传真人讲解视频、20 分钟内生成 AI 视频解析。)
Qianfan is the one-stop large-model development and service platform that TAL focused on for full-stack workflow support, efficient SFT tuning, plugin extensibility, and business security. (original: 好未来在使用过程中重点关注千帆提供全栈全流程能力、高效的 SFT 微调能力、灵活支持更多的插件能力、业务安全性等。)
The project gave TAL the conditions and technical support to validate, iterate, and upgrade the MathGPT foundation model quickly in the middle phase of the program. (original: 在项目中期,利用百度智能云在百度百舸·AI 异构计算平台上的运行实践...快速完成了九章大模型(MathGPT)底座大模型的快速验证、迭代与升级。)
Transparency Evidence & methodology 100/100 reference value · 89% confidence · 1 source

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Customer reference value100/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
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  • Implementation depth25/25
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  • Outcome specificity20/20
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  • Quantified impact25/25
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  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence89%
  • Source authority20/25
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  • Claim traceability21/25
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  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
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  • Implementation specificity10/10
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    TAL Education Group (好未来教育集团) customer story

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    May 14, 2025
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