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OpenAI Inks Deals With Colleges, Seizing Early Lead in Education Market

OpenAI has Sold more than 700,000 ChatGPT Licenses to about 35 Public Universities for Use by Students and Faculty

OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators’ wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the next generation of workers. By contrast, Microsoft Corp., which typically bundles its Copilot assistant with existing software, has experienced more measured uptake of its AI tool at these schools — and faculty are more likely to use it than students.