OpenAI launches "National Education Initiative", with first eight countries cooperating.

AIMPACT News. On May 20 (UTC+8), according to official reports, OpenAI announced that as more than 900 million people use ChatGPT weekly 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 a high priority on the impact of AI on cognition, learning, and long-term development, emphasizing that responsible deployment requires large-scale research collaboration led by governments. This year’s early launch of the “Education for Countries” plan at the Davos Forum has formed the first group of national cooperation 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, through the AI Leap Foundation, has deployed ChatGPT Edu nationwide, covering more than 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers, and is conducting joint research with the University of Tartu and Stanford University on the impact of AI on classroom learning. Jordan’s AI education assistant Siraj has reached 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, and 90% of surveyed teachers say ChatGPT Edu helps them in their work. 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 formally confirmed that it will join 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 support educators through a Singapore-exclusive OpenAI Academy chapter and a “Codex for Teachers” hackathon.

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

(Source: BlockBeats)