OpenAI Partners With Grab in Southeast Asia for AI Skills Program

OpenAI and Grab, a Singapore-based transport and food delivery company, on Wednesday launched a program to train Grab’s drivers, merchants and delivery riders to use ChatGPT for work.

The program covers Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and aims to train around 30,000 people over the next two years. Participants will get free access to three months of ChatGPT Plus and learn how to use it for practical skills.

In Singapore, the first market where the program will be implemented, training workshops will focus on helping aspiring entrepreneurs to use ChatGPT to create and execute business plans. Existing business operators will learn to use the tool for analyzing sales, financials and market opportunities.

The program comes as OpenAI doubles down on deploying its products to enterprises outside of the U.S. OpenAI in May said it would make Singapore one of its hubs for forward deployed engineers – responsible for integrating AI products within businesses – and plans to hire for over 200 technical roles.