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A free version of ChatGPT built for teachers

OpenAI Blog 19 November 2025, 00:00

OpenAI released a free version of ChatGPT designed specifically for teachers in U.S. public and charter schools, with built-in privacy protections and administrative controls. The offering is available at no cost to verified K-12 educators through June 2027. Teachers can now use the tool in classrooms with assurance that student data remains protected under education-grade security standards.

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ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure workspace with education‑grade privacy and admin controls. Free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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