Two years of OpenAI Academy

Building on our work to help people develop practical AI skills, with plans to bring training to more communities. To ensure the benefits of AI are broadly shared, people need the skills and confidence to use it in their everyday lives. Since launching in September 2024, OpenAI Academy has helped people build those skills through practical training for tasks ranging from teaching and running a small business to developing software.

Over the past two years, OpenAI Academy has hosted more than 250 events, and more than 4 million people have engaged with Academy content. That work has brought together educators, small business owners, developers, nonprofit leaders and community members to learn, practice, and share what works. For this next chapter, we’re expanding OpenAI Academy through a new trainer program that prepares people and organizations to teach Academy material in their communities.

This program builds on our work with partners and will make training and ongoing support available closer to where people live and work. We launched the Academy to expand access to AI training, technical guidance, and community, initially focusing…