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

Tech Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email El Salvador Partners with Elon Musk’s Grok in AI-Powered Education for 1M Students The nation that first adopted bitcoin as legal tender is looking to pioneer AI-powered education in 5,000 Salvadoran schools with xAI’s Grok By Olivier Acuna | Edited by Stephen Alpher Dec 11, 2025, 5:51 p.m. El Salvador pioneers AI-powered education. What to know : El Salvador is partnering with Elon Musk's xAI to launch the world's first national AI-powered public education system. The initiative will deploy xAI's Grok chatbot to over 5,000 public schools, benefiting more than a million students and thousands of teachers. The project aims to create new AI datasets and frameworks for education, focusing on local context and responsible AI use. 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 . STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don't miss another story. Subscribe to the The Protocol Newsletter today . See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . 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.” El Salvador Grok ai Education More For You Protocol Research: GoPlus Security By CoinDesk Research Nov 14, 2025 Commissioned by GoPlus What to know : As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M. GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month. Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B. View Full Report More For You The Protocol: Stripe’s Tempo Testnet Goes Live By Margaux Nijkerk | Edited by Sheldon Reback Dec 10, 2025 Also: ZKSync Lite to Sunset, Blockstream App Update, Axelar’s AgentFlux What to know : This article is featured in the latest issue of The Protocol , our weekly newsletter exploring the tech behind crypto, one block at a time. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Wednesday. Read full story Latest Crypto News Crypto Investment Firm Blockstream to Acquire TradFi Hedge Fund Corbiere Capital 16 minutes ago Robinhood Stock Slides 8% After Big Decline in November Trading Volumes 21 minutes ago Aptos Slumps 7% as Token Unlock Weighs on Sentiment 47 minutes ago TON Slips 3.3% to $1.59 as Broader Crypto Market Weakens 54 minutes ago ICP Extends Decline as Breakdown Below $3.40 Reinforces Bearish Structure 1 hour ago BNB Drops Below $865 as Crypto Market Moves Lower 1 hour ago Top Stories Bitcoin Stumbles Back Below $90K as Dollar Sinks to 7-Week Low After Fed Rate Cut 1 hour ago Fifth XRP Spot ETF on the Way After CBOE Approval of 21Shares Application 4 hours ago Crypto Trading Volumes Deteriorated Across Board Last Month as Market Slumped: JPMorgan 3 hours ago Klarna Partners With Privy to Explore Crypto Wallet Use Within its Ecosystem 4 hours ago Cardano Ecosystem Gets a Privacy Boost as Midnight’s NIGHT Goes Live 4 hours ago U.S. Senate's Crypto Market Structure Bill Gets Messy as Calendar Weighs Down 14 hours ago