Kazakhstan to Launch OpenAI AI Projects and Reform Testing

Kazakh Minister of Science and Higher Education Sayasat Nurbek has announced that AI projects are planned to be launched with OpenAI and reform its national testing system in 2026.

Nurbek made these remarks at a government meeting, The Caspian Post reports via Kazakh media.

The minister highlighted that Kazakhstan continued partnerships with Google, NVIDIA, Coursera, Huawei, OpenAI, ETS, and others in 2025.

“In 2026, the OpenAI project will integrate artificial intelligence into teaching for educators, while the ETS project will focus on modernizing national exams. Under the AI-Sana program, 646,000 certificates have already been issued to students,” Nurbek said.

So far, students have developed 229 AI-based solutions. The program’s next stages include:

100,000 students taking advanced AI courses designed by AI Council member Paul Kim starting February

60,000 students creating industry-focused AI projects

1,500 projects entering acceleration for market launch

Kazakhstan is piloting AlemGPT, a multi-agent AI platform aimed at delivering full-cycle public services for citizens and businesses on a single platform.