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YZi Labs has announced its first AI software investment since expanding its scope earlier this year, leading an $11 million seed round in VideoTutor, an “educational agent” product developed by a 20-year-old AI entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. The round also saw participation from JinQiu Fund (a ByteDance-affiliated fund) and Baidu Ventures, signaling growing institutional confidence in AI-powered education technology. https://t.co/sxEk3EEqjo — YZi Labs (@yzilabs) October 30, 2025 Building the Future of Learning VideoTutor aims to redefine how students learn. The platform combines large language models (LLMs) with a Manim-based animation rendering engine, converting any question into a personalized animated lesson. Its system can explain complex problems visually and conversationally, producing step-by-step animated tutorials that adapt in real time to each learner’s pace and understanding. The company describes VideoTutor as an “educational AI agent”, not just a video generator but an interactive teaching assistant that turns questions into lessons on the spot. Currently, the platform has reached 20,000 global users and has received more than 1,000 API integration requests, a strong indicator of demand from developers and schools looking to embed AI tutoring into their systems. Kai Zhao: The 20-Year-Old Behind the Vision VideoTutor was founded by Kai Zhao, a 20-year-old serial AI entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. Zhao’s vision is to make personalized education scalable, using AI to transform static video learning into a dynamic, interactive experience. From day one, he set out to “transform passive watching into interactive mastery,” merging AI reasoning with mathematical visualization tools to make complex subjects more intuitive. His approach reflects the new wave of AI-native educational tools, platforms designed from the ground up around machine learning, content generation, and real-time adaptability, not retrofitted onto older e-learning models. VideoTutor’s technology stack integrates a large language model (LLM) for contextual understanding and content generation with Manim,…

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