From Classrooms to Codebases: How Real-World AI is Redefining Thai Education and the Market Behind It

At the Techsauce Global Summit 2025, the experts from SCB 10X, Edsy, and Learn Corporation shared their perspectives in the session: “From Classrooms to Codebases: How Real-World AI is Redefining Thai Education and the Market Behind It.” The discussion revealed how AI is transforming teaching and learning, while also exploring the business opportunities and growing market behind educational innovation. From using AI as a teaching assistant to developing learning platforms that address the skills of the future, the goal is to elevate Thai education to international standards and create a workforce with the potential to compete on the global stage.

When AI is Called to Solve “Pain Points” in the Classroom

Pain points within Thai classrooms are a key starting point for the development of targeted solutions. Each organization focuses on solving a different “Pain Point.” For example:

• SCB 10X identified a significant issue in the Thai education system: the massive amount of time teachers spend grading exams. This workload reduces the time available for teachers to provide personalized guidance and support to individual students.
• Learn Corporation focuses on solving the problem of students' learning objectives, particularly for high school students who don't see how their current knowledge applies to their future or career paths, leading to a lack of motivation.
• Edsy aims to address the lack of English language skills among Thai students. Despite years of study, they still lack "flight hours" in actual speaking practice, resulting in a lack of confidence in real-world communication.

The integration of AI into the education system is therefore not just about technology; it is about creating tools that reduce teachers' workloads, establish clear learning paths for students, and increase opportunities to practice essential skills, truly enhancing Thai education for both learners and educators.

3 Different Approaches to AI Strategies

With clear problems identified, each organization has presented its "solution" through interestingly different AI development philosophies:

1. SCB 10X: The Ecosystem Builder

One of its key pilot projects is “RISA,” an AI-powered intelligent assistant for teachers and students, co-developed with Office of the Education Council (OEC). It is designed to help prepare for the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and is powered by the Typhoon model, an LLM with a deep understanding of Thai context and language. It boasts high processing efficiency and a security system called the “3-layer AI shield,” which consists of:

• Identifier: The first-line AI that analyzes and identifies the type of question a student inputs.
• Explainer: An AI that generates concise, easy-to-understand explanations or answers tailored to each student.
• Safety Guard: The final "gatekeeper" AI that verifies the accuracy and appropriateness of the information and content before sending the answer to the student, preventing incorrect or inappropriate responses.

These mechanisms allow RISA to help teachers grade open-ended exam questions with up to 90% accuracy. This not only effectively reduces the burden on teachers but also opens up new EdTech markets in Thailand and creates numerous opportunities for developing more AI-driven educational tools in the future.

2. Edsy: A Deep Dive into Skills with an ‘army of AIs’

Dr. Napol Rachatasumrit from Edsy explained that instead of using a single AI, Edsy employs an “Army of AIs,” where each unit has a specialized function to collectively analyze a user's learning. This allows for deep and detailed individual feedback, such as, “Your pronunciation is excellent, but you need to improve your vocabulary.”

This concept is called “Interpretability,” which helps students clearly see which skills they need to develop, making learning more effective and tangible, leading to genuine improvement.

3. Learn Corporation: When Accuracy Matters More Than Speed

Therefore, Learn Corporation has chosen to use AI in the “back-end system” to analyze data and create Personalized Learning paths for each student, without yet allowing the AI to interact directly with children. This approach uses AI to enhance teaching efficiency while still emphasizing that students must practice thinking and analyzing for themselves.

Lessons from the Real World: Challenges to Overcome

Although AI is a powerful tool, implementing it to its full potential in the Thai education system is not simple and requires careful design, governance, and evaluation. There are significant limitations to face:

• Accuracy and Risks to a Learner's Future: Currently, AI cannot be 100% accurate. A minor error could have a severe impact on a learner's future. Therefore, it is essential to have experts regularly supervise and verify the AI's performance to ensure that the information delivered to students is always correct and safe.
• The Gap Between Technology and Pedagogy: Implementing AI in the classroom still faces obstacles due to a knowledge gap among teachers and educational personnel. Furthermore, educational AI is often developed by technology experts who may lack an understanding of appropriate pedagogy. Therefore, creating an AI that truly meets educational needs must come from collaboration between developers and education specialists.
• Risk of Academic Dishonesty: The use of AI can create opportunities for students to cheat, such as using it to do homework without undergoing a genuine learning process. This is a problem the education system must address by developing more robust assessment mechanisms and using technology to help verify student identity or detect plagiarism, such as Voice Identification or Plagiarism Detection.

The Future: Is the New AI ‘Teacher's Assistant’ Ready?

Within the next five years, the cost of AI technology is expected to decrease significantly, making tools for “Reskilling” and “Relearning” more widely accessible. AI will serve as an assistant in co-designing complex, flexible, and more efficient personalized learning paths.

However, the role of the teacher will become even more crucial in a dimension that AI cannot replace—the understanding of humanity. The ultimate goal of an AI-driven Thai education is not to produce tech geniuses, but to shape people who can “think effectively, work effectively, and be good people who are happy in life”—a value that AI cannot create.