OpenAI partners with government of Kazakhstan giving 165,000 educators access to ChatGPT Edu
OpenAI has signed a strategic agreement with Freedom Holding Corp, an investment bank, and the government of Kazakhstan, giving 165,000 educators in the country access to ChatGPT Edu.
Kazakhstan will now become one of the first countries in the world to use ChatGPT Edu at a national scale as the tool is rolled out to teachers at primary, secondary, tertiary, and faculty level.
Freedom Holding Corp, a parent company of Freedom24, will finance the scheme, while OpenAI will provide access to the platform and localized support in Kazakh and Russian.
ChatGPT Edu includes features specifically created for teachers that are not available in the free version of the LLM. This includes unlimited uploads and research capacity, personalized AI assistants, and seamless integration with learning management systems.
The news follows shortly after the University of Oxford announced that it will offer all students and staff free access to ChatGPT Edu, starting in this academic year. The university claims to be the first in the UK to offer the education-specific version of OpenAI’s LLM, which includes enterprise-level security and controls to ensure that data is retained within the university.
Earlier this week, Anthropic and Iceland’s Ministry of Education and Children announced a new partnership bringing rival LLM Claude to teachers across the country in what Anthropic claims is the world’s first comprehensive national AI pilot.
