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Samsung SDS and LG CNS have each signed reseller partner agreements for OpenAI’s education-focused service, ChatGPT Edu, stepping up competition to secure an early lead in the education AI transformation market.
The two companies said on the 27th that they secured the right to supply ChatGPT Edu on the same day and will ramp up sales to South Korean universities and other educational institutions.
ChatGPT Edu is designed for educational institutions, supporting tasks such as generating lecture materials, organizing research and reports, and providing personalized tutoring. It applies a “non-training” policy under which user conversations and responses are not used as AI training data, strengthening data privacy. Built on the latest GPT-5 language model, it supports text generation, coding, data analysis, document summarization and custom chatbot creation.
The service offers the same security environment as ChatGPT Enterprise, allowing use without concerns about sensitive information leaks, and it is also positioned at a more affordable price for schools, the companies said.
Arizona State University, the California State University system, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, the University of London, the Wharton School and the National University of Singapore are using ChatGPT Edu, and Estonia has introduced it across its secondary education system to expand AI use by students and teachers.
Samsung SDS is conducting a proof of concept with Korea National Open University, which has about 90,000 students, and plans to discuss a formal rollout. The company said it will provide end-to-end AI transformation services through a “One-Team” setup spanning AI consulting, development, operations, cloud and security, supported by its own cloud and GPU-based AI infrastructure.
LG CNS said it will run a series of introductory tours and AI education seminars for major universities in the Seoul metropolitan area. It is also reviewing plans to work with universities and OpenAI on developing AI education curricula and operating hackathons. LG CNS said its dedicated ChatGPT organization, the “OpenAI Launch Center,” will handle full-stack services from adoption consulting to technical support, with participation by AI engineers, architects and consultants alongside OpenAI specialists.
Both companies pointed to progress in the corporate market. Samsung SDS said it has signed supply contracts with major companies across the public, finance, manufacturing, distribution and service sectors, including Nexen Tire. LG CNS said it began supplying ChatGPT Enterprise in February and has secured about 10 corporate customers in manufacturing, chemicals, finance and biotech.
Lee Jeong-heon, vice president and head of strategic marketing at Samsung SDS, said the company will “strengthen our role as an AX partner that designs and scales corporate AI operating systems, beyond being a simple reseller.”
Kim Tae-hoon, vice president and head of the AI Cloud Business Division at LG CNS, said, “As we have rapidly expanded customer use cases through our ChatGPT Enterprise business, this Edu reseller agreement expands our business into the education AX field.”
* This article has been translated by AI.
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