Led by President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, is now looking to position itself at the forefront of artificial intelligence, teaming up with Elon Musk’s xAI to launch the world’s first national AI-powered public education system.
The government will deploy xAI’s Grok chatbot to more than 5,000 public schools over the next two years to support over a million students and thousands of teachers, according to an announcement Thursday.
Grok will act as a digital tutor, adapting the lessons to each student’s pace and skill level. The system is aligned with El Salvador’s national curriculum and aims to ensure that students in both urban and rural areas receive consistent education, xAI said. The project will also produce new AI datasets, frameworks and methods tailored for educational environments, focusing on local context, security and human-centered impact, according to the announcement.
“By developing this system together with El Salvador, we will generate new methods, datasets and frameworks to guide responsible AI use in classrooms globally,” the release continued.
President Nayib Bukele, whose administration recently increased the country’s bitcoin treasury to 7,500 BTC, said El Salvador is “pioneering AI-powered education.” Musk added: “El Salvador is not waiting for the future of education, they are building it with xAI.”
