iFlytek 1024 Developer Festival: Spark X2.6 and iFlytek Starlight Upgraded, AI Lands in Real Classrooms

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Artificial intelligence is becoming the most disruptive technological and industrial revolution in human history. From scientific discovery to industrial application, the boundaries of AI's capabilities are constantly expanding. How to balance security and extreme cost-effectiveness, how to move from the digital world into the physical world, and how to go from individual efficiency gains to organizational effectiveness have become the keys to testing its value.

On October 22, the 2026 iFLYTEK Global 1024 Developer Festival officially opened. Centered on "liberating productivity and unleashing imagination," it showcased new achievements and explorations in the large-scale deployment of fully domestic AI. The dual-city science and technology expo in Beijing and Hefei also opened simultaneously, allowing visitors to see up close what it looks like when AI enters real classrooms.

1024 Science and Technology Expo

Education products tested in real scenarios

Behind a high-quality inquiry-based classroom, there is often a great deal of behind-the-scenes effort by teachers: collecting materials, making animations, and repeatedly debugging formats, which often consumes several nights of after-hours time.

At the Beijing Science and Technology Expo, the iFLYTEK Starlight Teacher Super Agent responded to this challenge: with no complex operations, simply speaking a request, such as "help me create an interactive animation of the magnetic field around a current-carrying solenoid," can generate interactive courseware that can be used directly in class. Students can drag and operate on the all-in-one machine screen, and even perform real-scene gesture interactions, turning abstract magnetic fields and the right-hand screw rule into a visible and tangible classroom experience.

Of course, as a super AI assistant built for teachers, Starlight's capabilities go far beyond courseware creation. It unifies teachers' entire workflow of daily work—lesson preparation and teaching research, analysis of student learning conditions, home-school communication, and administrative office work—into the same workbench, using intelligent means to take on a large amount of repetitive and tedious affairs, reducing burdens and improving efficiency for teachers.

In addition to lesson preparation, another headache for teachers is homework grading.

In front of the experience area for the Spark Intelligent Grading Machine, guests from home and abroad gathered to observe and try it out. There is no need to change the traditional habit of teachers and students writing on paper; paper homework can be processed simply by feeding it directly into the device. Whether it is targeted exercises or in-class quizzes, homework of all scenarios and all sizes can be graded. For major science problems, it can grade step by step and precisely locate where students' thinking went wrong; for Chinese and English essays, it provides sentence-by-sentence circling, typo correction, and simultaneous output of wording polish suggestions.

A class's homework can be batch-graded in as fast as 5 minutes, automatically outputting a class learning report and classroom review lecture notes. High-frequency wrong questions and common knowledge weak points can be seen at a glance without teachers manually compiling statistics, truly achieving same-day review of wrong questions so that problems do not drag past the night. The system also automatically accumulates school-based wrong-question resources and, through "one wrong question, three variants pushed," generates variant practice questions, building a teaching loop of detection-diagnosis-consolidation, freeing teachers from mechanical grading and directing more energy toward educating students themselves.

Moving to the iFLYTEK Tongchuang AI Blackboard booth, the on-site demonstration vividly showed how AI solves the teaching challenge of abstract knowledge: staff casually sketched a plane figure on the screen, and with one click it could be converted into a rotatable, disassemblable three-dimensional model, intuitively presenting the spatial logical relationships of points, lines, and planes. Knowledge points that in the past could only be explained thoroughly by relying on physical teaching aids and imagination on the blackboard can now be easily completed with dynamic demonstrations.

The intelligence of the AI blackboard is not just an upgrade at the software level. It has also obtained TÜV Rheinland circularly polarized natural-like light eye protection certification and hearing care certification; it is equipped with a 24-channel AI speaker array and sound field equalization algorithm, achieving a sound pressure level difference of less than 3dB across the entire space of a standard classroom; with a 130° ultra-wide viewing angle, it eliminates reflections and viewing blind spots to the greatest extent, ensuring that students in every position of the classroom have a balanced audiovisual experience.

The teaching effectiveness of the classroom also needs to extend to the home self-study stage. The newly launched "Inquiry Learning" feature of the iFLYTEK AI Learning Machine uses real problems as a starting point to guide children to first think independently and practice hands-on, then complete conclusion verification, thoroughly mastering the underlying knowledge principles. It makes abstract knowledge visible and operable, pushing children to shift from passively receiving answers to actively exploring and boldly expressing themselves.

Meanwhile, at the Hefei Science and Technology Expo, the iFLYTEK AI Learning Machine, with inquiry-based learning as its concept, created an immersive exhibition area that is "playable, creative, and take-home." Fun projects such as robot performances, time-space battles, AI transformation shows, AI programming halls, and the Magic Brush took turns, and many parents stopped with their children to experience them, actively exploring and creating through fun interactions and experiencing a whole new form of AI learning.

iFLYTEK Starlight gets an upgrade

Responding to real needs with professional capabilities

At the main venue, iFLYTEK Chairman Liu Qingfeng released the device-cloud integrated iFLYTEK Spark X2.6, achieving breakthroughs in code and agent capabilities based on fully domestic computing power for the first time, bringing a smoother and more reliable experience to iFLYTEK Starlight, the super AI assistant built specifically for teachers.

First, the fully self-controllable full-stack Spark large model continues to iterate. The Spark X2.6 released this time relies on fully domestic computing power and achieves breakthroughs in code and agent capabilities. From understanding teaching intentions and generating interactive animation courseware to linking tools to analyze learning conditions, the entire set of teaching capabilities is uniformly supported by domestic underlying models, ensuring stable, safe, and controllable output in education scenarios.

Second, 22 years of deep cultivation in the education track. Understanding classrooms and teachers' demands is something general models find difficult to do quickly. iFLYTEK has been deeply engaged in education for 22 years, with products deeply applied in more than 60,000 schools nationwide, accumulating a deep understanding of curriculum standards, textbooks, learning conditions, and classroom logic, forming an exclusive education knowledge base, being thoroughly familiar with new curriculum standard requirements and the cognitive characteristics of different school stages, and possessing a unique frontline teaching industry context.

Third, collaborative refinement through education research. Aligning with educational laws requires joint efforts between technology and education science. iFLYTEK has joined hands with institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and Beijing Normal University to integrate teaching research theories into the agent; Starlight's expert Agent embeds a complete teaching research framework and, combined with a large amount of classroom material, is repeatedly tuned to align with real teaching logic.

It is precisely the integration of the technology foundation, industry accumulation, and research collaboration that creates the iFLYTEK Starlight that truly "understands teachers." Multi-dimensional ratings from more than 14,000 frontline teachers show that iFLYTEK Starlight has a satisfaction score of 4.7.

Moving from model capabilities to real productivity, iFLYTEK continues to promote AI entering real scenarios, solving real problems, and creating real value, using fully domestic AI technological strength to serve rigid education needs and empower high-quality development of education. Statement: This is an exclusive article of Sina.com; reproduction without authorization is prohibited. tech_web_article_v2015_block_bottom Non-targeted 300*250 button 17/09 wenjing begin

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