OpenAI Launches "National Education Program," First Eight Countries Collaborate

BlockBeats News, May 20, according to official information, OpenAI announced that as more than 900 million people use ChatGPT each week and more than 4 million people use Codex, AI agents are expected to bring greater creativity, intelligence, and technical capabilities to every student. OpenAI places great importance on the impact of AI on cognition, learning, and long-term development, emphasizing that responsible deployment requires large-scale research collaborations led by governments.

The “Education for Countries” initiative launched earlier this year at the Davos Forum has already formed the first batch of national cooperation groups, including Estonia, Greece, Italy’s CRUI, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and Jordan. The cooperation is being advanced around three core pillars: research-driven deployment, localized AI learning tools, and teacher training and empowerment.

In Estonia, ChatGPT Edu has been deployed nationwide through the AI Leap Foundation, covering more than 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers, and it is collaborating with the University of Tartu and Stanford University on research into the impact of AI on classroom learning. In Jordan, the AI education assistant Siraj has covered more than 1 million students and 100,000 teachers. Greece has launched an AI startup accelerator, selecting 21 AI-native startups from 240 applications. In Kazakhstan, ChatGPT Edu has been deployed across 20 regions nationwide; more than 84,000 educators have completed AI readiness training. 90% of surveyed teachers said that ChatGPT Edu is helpful for their work, and active teachers sent 1.5 million prompts in the first month. An early university survey in Slovakia shows that more than 90% of teachers report improved work efficiency, saving about 5 hours per week.

Singapore has officially confirmed that it will join the program. The Ministry of Education in Singapore 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 support education workers through a Singapore-exclusive OpenAI Academy chapter and a “Codex for Teachers” hackathon.

OpenAI said it will soon launch the first phase of the “OpenAI Luminaries” program, focusing on co-designing with teachers, classroom practice resources, and cross-country sharing of teacher-led case studies. The next batch of national partner organizations is currently being selected and will be announced later this year.