AI Teacher's new Tupai 2.0 and Tupai Parent apps, launched 19 September, are now on Google Play; promo code TUPAIFOR2 unlocks two months free for every family, redeemable until 31 October.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- With SPM written papers eight weeks away, Malaysian education technology company Tupai (AI Teacher Sdn Bhd) is making its AI mathematics tutoring apps free to every student and family through the year-end examination season.
This move is a response to a difficult year for Malaysian mathematics. The SPM 2025 Examination Results Analysis Report found that 21.7% of candidates — more than one in five — did not pass Mathematics, the most commonly failed core subject. The OECD's PISA 2025 results, published on 8 September, showed Malaysian 15-year-olds' mathematics score falling 11 points from 2022, the only core domain to decline.
Behind the statistic are two moments Tupai often hears from families. The first belongs to the student: "SPM is in two months — and I haven't started studying." The second belongs to the parent: "I only found out my child was struggling with maths months later. I want to help my child progress — I want to be involved — but I haven't touched the syllabus in twenty years." Both apps were designed to catch the student in the moment of being stuck and to bring the parent into the picture while there is still time to act.
For the students sitting for SPM from 23rd November, and for every other student facing end-of-year assessments in the same window, these are the weeks in which practice matters more than fresh teaching — the last stretch in which a result can still change. Tupai would rather help every student during this period than hold access back for the ones who can pay.
"SPM students need all the help they can get, and we want to help — that's why Tupai exists," said Andre Sequerah, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tupai. "Then we thought: if we're already helping the Form 5 students, it would be great to help everyone else too. So that's what we're doing — with a promo code, Tupai is free for everyone who needs it."
Two apps for every family — how it works
Tupai 2.0 and the new Tupai Parent companion app were launched publicly on 19 September at The Sunway Library by BookXcess, Sunway Square, and are now available on Google Play, alongside the web version at tupai.ai; an iOS release follows later this year.
The student app is built for the moment a child is stuck: photograph any mathematics question and it explains the answer step by step — guiding rather than solving — with follow-up questions in a conversational back-and-forth, quick practice, and a dedicated SPM and exam-preparation module built on trial and past-year papers. Content is curriculum-aligned across KSSR Mathematics (Primary 4 to 6), KSSM Mathematics (Form 1 to 5) and Cambridge IGCSE, in English and Bahasa Malaysia. The Tupai Parent app shows parents which topics their child has mastered and where they are still stuck, and lets them assign practice or work through a topic together — an answer for the parent who wants to be involved.
Backed by results from its school communities
The two apps extend work Tupai already does on the ground. Its Tupai & Friends programme runs after-school peer-learning communities in schools across Peninsular Malaysia — small groups with weekly sessions and trained facilitators, where students explain concepts to one another and turn to the app when the group is stuck. The communities are deployed with the support of corporate foundations; Tupai is a named partner in Yayasan Sime Darby's YSD SEPAKAT initiative under Belanjawan 2026.
When students sat for assessments this September — the median score across eight communities, 256 students from Kelantan to the Klang Valley, rose from 36.5% to 54% when compared to their mid-term exams, with most communities improving. The figures are Tupai's own — teacher-administered, not independently audited, and excluding two communities whose programmes had run fewer than four sessions. At one Klang secondary school, the median rose from 38% to 77%.
With that, Tupai is inviting every family to benefit from the new apps ahead of end-of-year assessments and the SPM.
The code — TUPAIFOR2 — unlocks two months of Tupai Premium Family Duo at no cost, redeemable at parent.tupai.ai or via the 'Tupai Parent' app on Google Play store, until 31st October 2026. It is open to everyone, with no sponsor, school or eligibility requirement, and a code redeemed at the end of October carries a family past the final SPM paper in mid-December.
About Tupai
Tupai is the brand name of AI Teacher Sdn Bhd (1523223-M), a Malaysian education technology company building AI-powered mathematics learning solutions for Malaysian students alongside Tupai & Friends, its after-school peer-learning community programme. Its tools align with the KSSR, KSSM and Cambridge IGCSE mathematics curricula and are used by students, schools, and corporate foundation programmes across Malaysia.
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Tupai offers free AI maths apps for SPM season after one in five candidates failed mathematics last year
As global demand for sustainable cooling accelerates, i2Cool, a pioneer in electricity-free passive radiative cooling technology, announced the expansion of its functional fabric portfolio with two new solutions: i2Umbrella Fabric-Hyber and i2Tarpaulin. Going beyond conventional shading, these fabrics are engineered to reflect incoming solar radiation while continuously dissipating trapped heat, actively lowering surface temperatures without electricity.
SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- i2Cool, a technology company specializing in electricity-free passive radiative cooling materials, has expanded its functional fabric portfolio with two outdoor cooling solutions: i2Umbrella Fabric-Hyber and i2Tarpaulin.
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About i2Cool
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i2Cool Launches Smart Fabrics That Actively Cool Umbrellas and Shading Structures Without Power
