OpenAI and Anthropic Rival for Student Market

OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Plus for free to all students in the US and Canada until May, just one day after Anthropic launched its “Claude for Education” program for US colleges. The timing of the announcements highlights the fierce competition between the two companies.

OpenAI has been active in education for a year, launching ChatGPT Edu in May 2024 and recently founding the NextGenAI Consortium, with a $50 million investment to support AI research at 15 universities. Both companies are ramping up efforts to capture the academic market.