El Salvador Partners with Elon Musk’s Grok in AI-Powered Education for 1M Students

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 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 a Thursday announcement.

Grok will act as a digital tutor, adapting lessons to each student’s pace and skill level. The system aligns with El Salvador’s national curriculum and aims to ensure both urban and rural students receive consistent instruction, said xAI.The project will also produce new AI datasets, frameworks and methods tailored for educational settings, with a focus on local context, safety and human-centered impact, according to the announcement.

“By co-developing this system with El Salvador, we’ll generate new methodologies, 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-driven education." Musk added, “El Salvador isn’t waiting for the future of education, they’re building it with xAI.”