OpenAI Launches "National Education Program" with Initial Eight-Country Partnership

BlockBeats News, May 20th - According to official sources, OpenAI announced that with over 900 million weekly users of ChatGPT and over 4 million users of Codex, AI agents are expected to bring greater creativity, intelligence, and technical capabilities to every student. OpenAI attaches great importance to the impact of AI on cognition, learning, and long-term development, emphasizing that responsible deployment requires government-led large-scale research collaboration.

Earlier this year, the "Education for Countries" initiative launched at the Davos Forum has formed the first group of national partners, including Estonia, Greece, Italy CRUI, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and Jordan. The collaboration is advancing around three core pillars: research-driven deployment, localized AI learning tools, and teacher training and empowerment.

Estonia has deployed ChatGPT Edu nationwide through the AI Leap Foundation, reaching over 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers, and has collaborated with the University of Tartu and Stanford University to study the impact of AI on classroom learning. Jordan's AI education assistant, Siraj, has reached over 1 million students and 100,000 teachers. Greece has launched an AI startup accelerator, selecting 21 AI-native startups from 240 applications. Kazakhstan has deployed ChatGPT Edu in 20 regions nationwide, with over 84,000 education workers completing AI readiness training. 90% of surveyed teachers said ChatGPT Edu was helpful, and active teachers sent 1.5 million prompts in the first month. An early university survey in Slovakia showed that over 90% of teachers reported improved work efficiency, saving about 5 hours per week.

Singapore has officially confirmed its participation in the program. The Singapore Ministry of Education will collaborate with OpenAI to support personalized learning use cases, such as helping students learn their mother tongue in a more interactive way. OpenAI will also provide support to educators through Singapore's dedicated OpenAI Academy section and a "Teacher using Codex" hackathon.

OpenAI announced that it will soon launch the first phase of the "OpenAI Luminaries" program, focusing on co-designing with teachers, classroom practice resources, and cross-border sharing of teacher-led cases. The next group of national partners is currently being selected and will be announced later this year.