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The government of Uzbekistan and OpenAI have taken the first step toward integrating artificial intelligence into the country’s education system, officials reported. The inaugural working meeting brought together representatives from both sides. Uzbekistan was represented by Khikmatilla Ubaydullaev (Pulatov), Deputy Head of the Department of Financial Technologies, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence of the Presidential Administration. OpenAI’s delegation included Valerie Fokke, Deeps Patel, Shaiga Ali, and Carlotta Serrano, heads of education and partnerships. During the meeting, Uzbekistan outlined its national strategy in artificial intelligence and digitalization. A key topic was the introduction of OpenAI’s educational platform, ChatGPT EDU, which allows teachers and students to work with advanced language models in a secure environment, create custom AI assistants, and develop educational content. Special attention was given to personalized learning, enabling AI to adapt to each student’s pace, knowledge level, and interests. Ubaydullaev highlighted that the platform will allow teachers to move away from traditional “one-size-fits-all” teaching methods and focus on individualized learning. Rather than creating a new program, both parties agreed to integrate OpenAI’s expertise and courses into Uzbekistan’s national initiative, One Million AI Leaders. This integration aims to give schoolchildren, students, and teachers access to AI education aligned with global standards. The meeting also addressed support for local startups. OpenAI expressed willingness to provide privileged access to its tools and APIs, as well as opportunities for participation in hackathons and acceleration programs. “This opens up opportunities for Uzbekistan to create its own AI products, ranging from educational platforms to business services,” said Ubaydullaev. Uzbek officials also shared plans to establish a GPU cluster and a corpus of Uzbek-language data to train models tailored to the country’s linguistic and cultural context. OpenAI representatives noted that their models already understand Uzbek effectively and expressed readiness to collaborate further in this area.
