Samsung SDS Secures ChatGPT Edu Reseller Status, Strengthens Collaboration with OpenAI

Securing Sales Rights for 'ChatGPT Edu' Targeting Educational Institutions

Adopted by Oxford, University of London, and Others... User Data Not Used for AI Training

In Talks with Korea National Open University for Implementation... Proof of Concept Underway

Samsung SDS announced on April 27 that it has secured additional rights to sell the 'ChatGPT Edu' product and will further strengthen its collaboration with OpenAI.

ChatGPT Edu is a service offered to educational institutions such as schools and publishers. It is designed to enhance data privacy and security by ensuring that conversations and responses exchanged by users, such as teachers and students, on ChatGPT are not used as AI training data.

In December of last year, at the reseller partner agreement signing ceremony between Samsung SDS and OpenAI, Hojoon Lee, Vice President and Head of Cloud Services Division at Samsung SDS, and Kyunghun Kim, General Manager of OpenAI Korea, posed for a commemorative photo. Samsung SDS

In addition, by utilizing the GPT-5 language model, ChatGPT Edu provides a wide variety of features, including text comprehension and generation, coding, data analysis, web browsing, document summarization, and custom chatbot creation.

ChatGPT Edu is currently being used at institutions such as the University of Oxford, University of London, Wharton School, and National University of Singapore. OpenAI designed ChatGPT Edu based on its experience with ChatGPT Enterprise at major global universities.

Through this partnership, Samsung SDS plans to expand its services to schools, publishers, and educational institutions seeking to adopt generative AI in the education and research sectors. The company is currently conducting a proof of concept (PoC) to provide ChatGPT Edu services to Korea National Open University, which has around 90,000 students, professors, and staff. Following this, the two companies plan to discuss a full-scale rollout.

In December last year, Samsung SDS became the first Korean company to sign a reseller partner agreement with OpenAI. Recently, Samsung SDS has also signed contracts with major companies, including Nexen Tire. Nexen Tire views generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a core productivity tool for the company and has promoted its adoption to improve work efficiency. In particular, considering the security risks associated with individual AI use, Nexen Tire decided to introduce ChatGPT Enterprise—which enables security and data management—through Samsung SDS.

Lee Junghun, Vice President and Head of Strategy and Marketing at Samsung SDS, said, "Through ChatGPT Edu, we expect to create a safer environment for the use of generative AI in educational settings and to rapidly expand user experience," adding, "Based on our continued collaboration with OpenAI, Samsung SDS will go beyond being a simple reseller to strengthen its role as an AI transformation (AX) partner, designing, supporting, and expanding enterprise AI operating systems."

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