This is the model OpenAI has pioneered through Education for Countries, launched at Davos earlier this year. Our first cohort brings together a community of countries united by a shared ambition: to improve learning outcomes and unlock economic opportunity. Estonia, Greece, Italy’s CRUI, Slovakia, Trinidad & Tobago, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and Jordan are now advancing this work across three core pillars:

Estonia is a digital pioneer, with one of the world’s strongest education systems and a thriving startup ecosystem. Through the AI Leap Foundation, Estonia’s Ministry of Education is leading a nationwide, research-driven ChatGPT Edu deployment: localising the experience for schools, equipping educators, and building the foundations for responsible adoption. ChatGPT Edu now reaches over 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers.

The next phase is focused on localising the tools, building sovereign capability, and measuring real-world impact. OpenAI is collaborating with AI Leap, the University of Tartu, and Stanford to understand how AI affects learning for more than 20,000 students in real classroom settings - findings we are committed to sharing publicly. Alongside this research, we are investing in teacher enablement and upskilling, recognising that educators are the cornerstone of responsible classroom adoption. That work spans professional learning communities and builder events like the recent Presidential Codex Hackathon, where more than 150 participants formed roughly 30 OpenAI-mentored teams to create classroom tools, including a Maths Feedback Coach and an AI STEM Tutor.

Across the first cohort, we are already seeing concrete signals of positive impact: