Khan Academy—Khan Academy launched Khanmigo AI tutor with OpenAI and made it free for teachers via Microsoft partnership
Khan Academy launched Khanmigo in March 2023 as an AI-powered Socratic tutor built on OpenAI's GPT-4, reaching 1.4 million users by 2025. In May 2024, Microsoft partnered to make Khanmigo for Teachers free to all U.S. educators, with global expansion to 180+ countries by July 2024. Khan Academy committed that no student data would be used to train AI models. The tool operates as a Socratic guide, asking questions rather than giving answers, reflecting pedagogically responsible AI design.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human-Centered AI | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Knowledge Access & Information Freedom | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| User Privacy | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.680 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.68)
Evidence (2 signals)
Microsoft partnership made Khanmigo for Teachers free to all U.S. educators and expanded globally
On May 21, 2024, Khan Academy and Microsoft announced that Khanmigo for Teachers would be free to all U.S. educators, powered by Azure OpenAI Service. By July 2024, the pilot expanded to 180+ countries and territories. Khan Academy confirmed that no student data is used to train AI models.
Khan Academy launched Khanmigo AI tutor as GPT-4 launch partner in March 2023
Khan Academy launched Khanmigo on March 14, 2023, as one of OpenAI's launch partners for GPT-4. The AI tool was designed as a Socratic tutor that asks questions rather than providing answers. By 2025, Khanmigo reached 1.4 million users across 350 school districts.