OpenAI announces Singapore joins its education national team, with 8 countries now in partnership

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At the Education World Forum in London, OpenAI announced that Singapore has officially joined the "Education for Countries" initiative, and for the first time disclosed the inaugural pilot results from eight countries. OpenAI also previewed the upcoming "Luminaries" teacher training co-creation program, and is currently selecting the next batch of country partners. (Recap: Singapore's Foreign Minister installed "Crayfish" himself: an 8GB Raspberry Pi ran for three months, and he said he didn't dare to turn it off) (Background: ChatGPT Study Mode arrives: the twilight of tutors, or the dawn of a golden age of education?) Hundreds of millions use ChatGPT each week, and 4 million people use the coding development tool Codex, yet most countries' education systems are still on the sidelines. OpenAI calls this gap a "capability overhang," and "Education for Countries," launched this January in Davos, is the initiative designed to fill it. At the Education World Forum in London, OpenAI officially welcomed Singapore to the list, and at the same time presented field data from the first eight countries. The program's mission is to use OpenAI's "learning outcome measurement suite" for research, provide localized ChatGPT Edu and Codex tools, and deliver large-scale teacher training and certification. It sounds like the standard corporate rollout playbook. The first batch of countries includes Estonia, Greece, Italy's CRUI (Conference of Italian University Rectors), Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and Jordan. Over the past few months, several data points stand out: - Jordan: Over 1 million students and 100,000 teachers have activated the AI teaching assistant "Siraj," led by the National Council for Future Technology, making it the largest country in the entire program. - Kazakhstan: ChatGPT Edu has been rolled out across all 20 administrative regions of the country, with 84,000 teachers completing AI readiness training, and 90% of respondents saying it is "helpful for their work." 44,000 active teachers sent a total of 1.5 million prompts in the first month. - Slovakia: University surveys show that over 90% of teachers reported productivity gains, saving an average of about 5 hours per week. The Ministry of Education team also used Workspace Agents to draft revisions to professional standards for teachers, compressing work that would have taken months into a few hours. - Estonia: Through cooperation between the AI Leap Foundation and the Ministry of Education, ChatGPT Edu covers over 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers. OpenAI is working with the University of Tartu and Stanford to track learning outcomes for 20,000 students. A Codex hackathon hosted by the Office of the President attracted more than 150 participants, forming about 30 teams to build classroom tools. - Greece: An AI startup accelerator selected 21 AI-native startups out of 240 applications, with the goal of retaining talent and translating national ambition into new companies. AI Leap COO Laura Kalda said: "We believe the next generation of AI, including tools like Agent and Codex, can support more personalized and more proactive learning, while still reinforcing critical thinking, independent learning, and the role of teachers." Singapore's education system ranks among the top globally, and its younger generation has long been heavy AI users — among Singaporeans aged 18 to 24, 43% of ChatGPT use is directly related to learning and education. OpenAI will work with Singapore's Ministry of Education (MOE) and GovTech to support personalized learning scenarios, such as enabling students to learn their mother tongue in more interactive ways. OpenAI will also establish a Singapore-specific branch of OpenAI Academy locally, and host a "Codex for Teachers" hackathon, ensuring that the application of AI tools is teacher-led and built on a responsible foundation. In addition to adding new countries, OpenAI previewed the upcoming "Luminaries" program, a teacher-centered co-creation mechanism focused on developing classroom practice resources and sharing teacher experiences across countries. The next batch of country partners is currently being selected, with announcements expected within the year — but Taiwan likely won't be on the list. Which countries are included in the OpenAI Education for Countries program? The first eight countries are Estonia, Greece, Italy's CRUI, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and Jordan, with Singapore being the latest member to join. The next batch of partners is expected to be announced within 2026. How effective has ChatGPT Edu been in pilot testing across countries? Among Kazakhstan's 84,000 teachers, 90% consider ChatGPT Edu useful for their work, with 1.5 million prompts sent in the first month; in Slovakia, 90% of teachers reported saving about 5 hours per week; in Jordan, over 1 million students and 100,000 teachers are already online.

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