All NSW public school students from Year 5 onwards will gain access to the state’s ChatGPT-style platform, NSWEduChat, from October 14, marking the first system-wide deployment for students.

Developed by the NSW Department of Education, NSWEduChat is a generative AI assistant that is intended to offer a secure and privacy-focused alternative to free public large-language model services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

The launch comes as South Australia prepares to widen the rollout its own generative AI platform, EdChat, to all public high schools from October 13, following a trial with 10,000 students.

NSW Education made the Azure-hosted NSWEduChat available to all teachers and staff in October 2024, following a trial in 50 schools earlier that year where it was described a

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