On June 23, NetEase Youdao officially launched and open-sourced its latest "Ziyue 3" series of large models, named Confucius3-Math in English. This reasoning model, focused on mathematical education, can run efficiently on ordinary consumer-grade GPUs, becoming the first low-cost, high-performance AI educational tool in China. In a series of mathematical reasoning tasks, "Ziyue 3" has demonstrated outstanding performance that surpasses many large-scale general models.

The "Ziyue 3 Math Model" significantly improves the ability to solve mathematical problems through large-scale reinforcement learning and a series of innovative algorithms. The training cost is only $26,000, and the inference performance is 15 times that of DeepSeek R1. This makes it rank among the best on many math-related datasets, especially in GAOKAO-Bench (Math), an evaluation framework based on Gaokao math questions, where the model achieved a high score of 98.5, demonstrating strong mathematical reasoning capabilities.

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The launch of this model not only offers performance advantages but also greatly reduces the barriers for AI application in educational scenarios. Addressing the pain points of uneven resources and insufficient personalized tutoring in primary and secondary education, "Ziyue 3" provides extremely low service costs, only $0.15 per million tokens, greatly enhancing educational equity. This way, ordinary educational institutions and developers can deploy professional-level math AI applications with minimal investment.

Duan Yitao, Chief Scientist at NetEase Youdao, stated that the release of the "Ziyue 3 Math Model" aims to prove that building powerful reasoning models within specific fields is entirely feasible under low-cost conditions. This not only provides valuable references for the research and application of educational large models but also injects new vitality into continuous innovation in the "AI + Education" field.

Since the launch of the first educational large model "Ziyue" in July 2023, NetEase Youdao has rapidly expanded its applications in the education sector, continuously launching multiple vertical applications focused on mathematical education. The open-sourcing of the "Ziyue 3 Math Model" will help more developers and educators share technological achievements, promoting the common development of educational technology.

Duan Yitao emphasized lastly that the ultimate goal of AI in the education sector is not to replace teachers, but to make technology an important lever for promoting educational equity. He hopes that the open-sourcing of the "Ziyue 3 Math Model" will attract more developers to explore the potential of mathematical reasoning models in education.