Anthropic partners with Rwandan Government and ALX to bring AI education to hundreds of thousands of learners across Africa (www.anthropic.com)

Anthropic has partnered with the Rwandan government and pan-African training provider ALX to deploy Chidi—a learning companion built on Anthropic’s Claude models—across Rwanda’s national education system and ALX’s programs. The initiative trains up to 2,000 teachers and civil servants, gives pilot graduates a year’s access to Claude tools (Claude Pro, Claude Code, and Claude for Education), and brings Chidi to ALX’s network of 200,000+ students and young professionals. Chidi is designed as a “Socratic mentor” that guides learners through questions rather than rote answers, helping users build skills in areas like data analytics, cloud computing, coding and problem-solving. Early metrics (since Nov. 4) show >1,100 conversations, nearly 4,000 learning sessions and ~90% positive user feedback. This represents one of the continent’s largest AI-for-education deployments and aligns with Rwanda’s Vision 2050 to create an AI-ready workforce and spur local innovation. Technically and operationally, the program emphasizes capacity building, responsible deployment and blending classroom teaching with developer-oriented tools (e.g., Claude Code for government dev teams). For the AI/ML community, the project is a significant testbed for scaling LLM-driven tutoring at national scale, measuring real-world pedagogical impacts, and informing best practices for government-led, ethically guided AI integration in education.