GEMS launches first Global Education AI Hub in Dubai
World's largest K-12 provider launches AI Hub to test concepts across 90 schools
#UAE #education - Dubai-based private education provider GEMS Education has launched a Global Education AI Hub, inviting artificial intelligence pioneers to co-develop next-generation learning tools across its network of 90+ schools serving 200,000 students worldwide. The initiative provides unprecedented access to billions of educational data points spanning multiple curricula and geographies, enabling real-world testing and refinement of AI solutions for personalised learning, intelligent tutoring systems, school operations, wellbeing applications, and curriculum design.
SO WHAT? - GEMS Education is an early adopter of advanced technologies and has already run a variety of pilot programmes for AI and robotics over the years. The school system’s large global network makes it ideally positioned to develop, test and trial new innovations using AI. The new initiative should allow GEMS to fast-track the real-world testing and validation of new technology solutions, allowing it to bring cutting-edge technologies into the classroom to benefit teachers and students.
Here are some key points about the launch of the Global Education AI Hub:
Global private education provider GEMS Education has launched a Global Education AI Hub, inviting AI pioneers to co-develop next-generation learning tools across its network of 90+ schools serving 200,000 students worldwide.
The Dubai-headquartered hub provides secure access to anonymised data from 15,000 teaching staff across diverse international settings, offering researchers and tech firms authentic classroom insights for AI development.
Hub partners gain collaboration opportunities with the GEMS School of Research and Innovation, the organisation's flagship AI-enabled institution opening in August 2025, serving as a primary testing facility.
The initiative targets AI research institutions, edtech startups, curriculum designers, applied AI researchers, and social ventures, offering both philanthropic and commercial collaboration pathways for solution development.
The new Global Education AI Hub offers deployment and scaling support through GEMS' international network, enabling successful innovations to reach global markets through established educational infrastructure.
According to GEMS, ethical governance frameworks and high-fidelity testing infrastructure ensure responsible AI development, addressing growing concerns about AI applications in educational settings involving minors.
GEMS Education was founded in UAE in 1959 and is now the world's largest private K-12 provider, with a network of schools across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA.
ZOOM OUT - GEMS Education is headquartered in an increasingly technologically advanced ecosystem. The UAE government recently mandated the inclusion of AI curriculum across all government schools from kindergarten to grade 12 starting in September 2025. The federal directive, will affect approximately 300,000 students, positioning the UAE alongside China as one of only two countries implementing nationwide AI primary education policies. Meanwhile, there are also a growing variety of initiatives to adopt AI solutions for education across the UAE’s private school ecosystem. So, it is certainly not out of the question that the creation of a global AI hub by GEMS could inspire other schools to create their own hubs.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]