With the development of educational informatization, the development of open education movement, and the continuous development and maturity of big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies, MOOC teaching has become an important part of educational informatization and an important means to improve the quality of education. Expanding and deepening educational reform, equality in education, equality in individual learning, and equality in ethnic Wushu education are important areas for the training of future Wushu teachers. The rationality of curriculum design is crucial to students’ knowledge acquisition. The 21st century is the century of the Internet. The combination of martial arts courses and open online courses allows students to learn in their spare time. Online MOOC learning is gradually globalized, and educational resources are allocated according to their scale, openness, networking, personalization, and interactivity. Therefore, this paper optimized the curriculum design of Wushu MOOCs through AI technology, so as to promote the effect of Wushu teaching. The results showed that the teaching effect and students’ initiative of Wushu MOOC under AI were higher than those of traditional Wushu courses, and the teaching effect was about 7% higher, and the students’ initiative was 9% higher.
