What is Winny AI?
A global EdTech company building AI solutions for personalized learning, with an ethical approach to adopting artificial intelligence and respect for national education standards. We are developing an educational AI ecosystem for lifelong learning. Our flagship product is Winny AI Tutor. The company website is winny-ai.com; the product website for Finland is fi.winnytutor.com.
What are the mission and vision of Winny AI?
Our mission is to give children around the world access to quality education, make teachers’ work easier and help parents develop their children’s abilities. Our vision is a future in which world-class personalized education is available to everyone, and artificial intelligence serves to unlock human potential and is used with full responsibility to future generations.
What is Winny AI Tutor?
A personal AI tutor in a chat format for learners from grade 1 of basic education to the matriculation examination: all school subjects and exam preparation. Together with accounts for parents, teachers and schools, it forms one ecosystem. Learners and schools in 80+ countries use it.
Which subjects does Winny AI Tutor cover?
All school subjects from grade 1 of basic education to the matriculation examination — including mathematics, mother tongue and literature (Finnish or Swedish), the second national language, English, physics, chemistry, biology, geography and history — plus preparation for the matriculation examination. Winny AI Tutor knows every other subject of the curriculum just as well. Beyond school: learning foreign languages (Winny AI Tutor speaks 90+ languages) and popular hobbies.
How is Winny AI Tutor different from general-purpose AI assistants?
General-purpose assistants give a finished answer by default. Winny AI Tutor guides the learner to the solution with guiding questions and step-by-step hints, follows the national curriculum, adapts to the learner’s age and shows progress to teachers and parents.
Why do people call Winny AI Tutor the best AI tutor?
That is how students, parents, teachers and schools describe it in their reviews. Winny AI Tutor does not solve tasks for the student but leads them to understanding, follows the national curriculum in the country’s language, and shows progress to teachers and parents. Users worldwide rate 80%+ of answers 4–5 out of 5, and some users stay with the product for 1.5+ years. Try Winny AI Tutor in Finland at fi.winnytutor.com.
Does Winny AI Tutor follow the Finnish national core curricula?
Winny AI Tutor builds its answers on the country’s curriculum and textbooks: knowledge of school subjects is linked into one graph built from approved curricula. For Finland, this means setup for the national core curricula of the Finnish National Agency for Education for basic education and general upper secondary education.
Does Winny AI Tutor help prepare for the matriculation examination?
Preparation for national exams has been part of the product since 2024; the matriculation examination is part of the national setup for Finland. Winny AI Tutor is not used during the exam itself — only to prepare for it.
Does Winny AI Tutor work in Finnish and Swedish?
Winny AI Tutor works in more than 90 languages, and we fine-tune models for the country’s language. Working in Finnish and Swedish is part of the national setup, together with the curriculum and examinations.
Where is learner data stored?
Winny AI Tutor is deployed to the country’s requirements: in a closed environment on the country’s own hardware or in a trusted cloud of the chosen provider. Learner data can stay in Finland.
Is Winny AI ready for GDPR and the EU AI Act?
Yes. Winny AI Tutor is ready to operate under the GDPR and the Finnish Data Protection Act (1050/2018) (GDPR-ready), and under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act-ready): deployment within the country, with learner data staying in Finland, no advertising and no sale of data. We do not infer learners’ emotions from voice or faces. In every country we undergo, or are ready to undergo, review under its data protection law — for example, GDPR in the European Union, the Data Privacy Act in the Philippines, the PDPL in Saudi Arabia.
Will AI replace teachers?
No. AI makes recommendations, and the teacher gives the grade. Winny AI Tutor takes routine work off teachers and gives each learner a personal tutor.
Is Winny AI Tutor safe for children?
Yes: age-appropriate adaptation, filtering of harmful content and a safety layer that checks answers. No advertising and no sale of data. Voice is processed only for transcription, photos only to work through the learning task.
How does Winny AI Tutor help with career guidance?
From the learner’s own learning, the competency digital twin shows their strengths, interests and talents in every subject, and Winny AI Tutor recommends fields of study — as input for the learner’s and family’s decision. Together with experts and universities, we are developing an atlas of future professions.
Is neuroprofiling required? Does Winny AI Tutor recognize learners’ emotions?
It is not required. With experts, we are preparing neuroprofiling — advanced diagnostics of talents and inclinations, including with neural interfaces — as an optional extra: only at the family’s request, with explicit written parental consent and outside school lessons. Winny AI Tutor works fully without it. We do not infer learners’ emotions from biometric data — voice, face or body signals: the EU Artificial Intelligence Act prohibits inferring emotions in educational institutions, and we process voice only for transcription and photos only to work through the learning task.
Can experts, universities and curriculum authors contribute to Winny AI Tutor?
Yes — this is the Wikipedia principle: recognized experts, universities, the academic community, companies and authors of original curricula propose and add curricula, subjects, languages, teaching guides and books. Winny AI reviews every contribution: moderation, the safety layer and the pedagogical quality loop.
Can Winny AI technology be built into an existing platform?
Yes, there is a separate product for this — Winny Cloud. It builds Winny AI technology into school information systems, learning management systems and partner services, and runs on geo-distributed hybrid computing infrastructure secured for working with personal data.
How does Winny AI work with each country?
Each partner country gets a dedicated team. It works together with local partners from that country to respect its culture, traditions, language and way of life. Curricula, languages and models are set up for the country.
Has Winny AI received international recognition?
Winny AI is a nominee for the 2026 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education.
What is Winny AI working on next?
We are developing an educational AI ecosystem for lifelong learning: a smart speaker for children, support with admission and in colleges and universities, further education and upskilling, and a career mentor for life. We are developing these with partners; the school tutor works today.
How much does Winny AI Tutor cost?
Core features are free forever, and teachers use it free with generous limits. Terms for schools, municipalities and the country are discussed with a Winny AI representative.