A New Engine for Art Education: ACG Partners with Oasis Science to Integrate Artificial Intelligence and Enhance Competencies

In October 2024, ACG International Art Education Group (“ACG”), a leading provider of creative arts education in China and Beijing Oasis Star Education Technology Co., Ltd. (“Oasis Science”), a provider of AI-related high-quality educational resources and services to schools and educational institutions, signed a strategic partnership to jointly promote the integration of art and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in the field of creative arts studies. The cooperation aims to enhance students’ aesthetic literacy through AI-driven training, and cultivate innovative talents’ international perspective in the digital age, by providing students with a variety of personalized development pathways.

For almost two decades, ACG has been providing high-quality international art education services in China and has continuously improved its teaching resources to ensure students have access to innovative learning tools to support their education. With a professional team of over 3,000 teachers covering more than 60 specialized art majors, ACG has developed a rich curriculum through personalized services, nurturing numerous art talents with global perspectives and innovative capabilities.

Oasis Science focuses on providing innovative software, course content, and professional teacher training. Leveraging its strong technological capabilities and platform advantages, Oasis Science serves as the technical support partner for the “National Youth Science and Technology Competition,” an initiative introduced by China’s Ministry of Education aimed at nurturing the development of specialized talents via the participation in AI related projects, including the Autonomous Vehicle Challenge. Currently, the Oasis Science platform has over 200,000 users, serving 150 training institutions and schools in more than 20 cities in China. Its business model is based on advanced hardware, innovative software, rich course content, and professional teacher training, aimed at providing high-quality educational resources and services to help schools and educational institutions implement education solutions that align with the characteristics of the AI era, fostering tech-savvy talents adaptable to this new age.

ACG's partnership with Oasis Science will focus on the “Art + AI” field where both parties will collaboratively develop a variety of AI focused courses specifically designed for and tailored to various age groups, thus extending ACG’s services to a larger student base. Oasis Science will provide ACG access to its cutting-edge AI technology and mature intelligent technology platform, the “Oasis Science Experimental Cloud.” ACG will utilize Oasis Science cloud platform to integrate high-performance computing, storage, and data resources, learning frameworks, visualization and development tools, and other software and hardware resources to upgrade ACG’s existing course services, using “Art + AI” model.

Over the years, ACG has established partnerships with many art schools in over 20 countries, advising and organizing students to participate in international art activities on an annual basis. Going forward, both sides will fully utilize their resources and advantages to introduce advanced educational resources, concepts and teaching methods by integrating cutting-edge AI technology, to cultivate globally competitive art talents.

Oasis Science CEO Ke Xu stated, “In 2024, both the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics were awarded for work related to AI. Nowadays, the combination and mutual promotion of different disciplines by utilizing AI is an inevitable trend. The cultivation of thinking skills plays an indispensable role in the deep integration of art and technology.”

ACG's founder and president, Jun Zhang, commenting on the delivery methods and expected outcomes of art education on the Oasis platform, as well as the connection between focusing on aesthetic appreciation, the accumulation of thinking skills, and AI learning added, “AI provides us the ability of creating precise analysis and personalized counselling for our students. Through data analysis, we can assist in developing quality art-cultivation plans tailored to their individual characteristics. We will focus on combining international art cultural resources to develop a distinctive art curriculum system. We look forward to working with Oasis Science to create a comprehensive AI based-ecosystem for art-focused quality education." 

The demand for interdisciplinary talents with the ability to integrate art and technology is growing rapidly across various sectors of society.

Focusing on the strategic significance of this partnership between ACG and Oasis Science, ACG's Chief Financial Officer, Ruobai Sima, noted, “As a provider of educational services at the frontier of observing student demands and industry trends, we are confident in the commercial value of AI in practical applications. ACG will combine its advantages with those of Oasis Science and other potential AI partners to explore relevant training programs, cultivate technological innovation to meet the demand of our students in the AI era.” our partners.”