From $1.4 tutorials to $42k corporate classes: inside China's booming AI training business

创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-21

A Chinese business feature profiles five people monetizing "teaching others to use AI," revealing a market with extreme price dispersion: 9.9-yuan ($1.4) tutorials selling 10,000+ copies in six months, paid communities at a few hundred yuan, 2,000-yuan/hour consulting, and corporate training sessions up to 300,000 yuan.

Key cases:

A former director who spent hundreds of thousands learning AI video production, then sells 3,000-yuan courses bundled with real client orders.
An AI consultant who uses Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini (spending $3,000-5,000/month on API) to mass-produce 33 courses with 400+ lessons; corporate classes reach 300k yuan each, students are mostly doctors and lawyers.
A former lawyer teaching lawyers about client privacy, local deployment and workflows — his income now exceeds his legal practice; he says he sells industry information gaps and anxiety relief, not just knowledge.
An AIGC director who refused a 480k-yuan "guaranteed job" deal as a scam, now runs a 12,800-yuan two-month program with real orders.
An office administrator whose 19.9-yuan tutorial earned 6,000+ yuan in three months, outearning her gig work.

The common thread: buyers pay for domain-specific know-how, client resources and reassurance, not prompt basics — and most practitioners see only a one-to-two-year window before free content erodes the gap.

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