Grab OpenAI AI Training: Countries, Format and Access
Grab and OpenAI's GO Forward with AI program will teach practical AI skills to 30,000 driver, delivery and merchant partners across Southeast Asia.
Grab OpenAI AI training is a new two-year program for 30,000 Grab driver, delivery and merchant partners in Southeast Asia. Called GO Forward with AI, it begins in Singapore, expands to Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines later in 2026, and reaches Malaysia and Vietnam in 2027. The official announcement describes half-day, in-person workshops based on OpenAI Academy material, but it does not publish a general application page, a fee or exact local dates. Read OpenAI’s announcement.
Grab OpenAI AI training: the rollout by country
The rollout covers six countries rather than opening everywhere in Southeast Asia at once. Singapore is the launch market. Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines are due to follow later in 2026, while Malaysia and Vietnam are scheduled for 2027. OpenAI says the program will run over two years and aims to help 30,000 partners in total. It does not provide a country-by-country seat allocation.
That distinction matters for anyone searching for a local session. A regional target is not a promise that 30,000 places are available immediately, and the announcement does not identify cities, venues or monthly dates outside the Singapore launch. Prospective participants should treat the country sequence as a rollout map, not as a registration calendar.
The initiative is also narrower than a public online course. OpenAI identifies Grab’s driver-partners, delivery-partners and merchant-partners as the intended participants. Nothing in the announcement says that people without a Grab partner relationship can enroll. Readers looking for broader learning material can use our separate guide to OpenAI Academy courses and learning paths, which covers the general Academy experience rather than this partnership program.
Who the workshops are designed to help
GO Forward with AI is built around business decisions that platform workers and small merchants already face. For a driver or delivery partner, OpenAI gives the example of using ChatGPT to explore a business idea, identify how it might stand out and turn it into an initial plan. For a merchant, the examples include examining sales patterns, planning promotions and preparing for changes in demand.
Those examples indicate a practical, task-led curriculum rather than a technical developer course. Participants are not described as learning to train models, integrate an API or write production software. The focus is on using available AI tools to organize information, test an idea and decide what to do next.
OpenAI cites a Grab survey of driver- and delivery-partners in Singapore: half said they use AI tools, while 87% of the non-users said they were open to trying them. ChatGPT was the tool respondents knew best. These figures describe that surveyed Singapore partner group; they should not be read as a measurement of all gig workers or all six rollout countries.
The new program builds on an existing OpenAI and Grab relationship. OpenAI says the companies have worked together since 2024 on products including Grab’s Driver AI Assistant, which has reached close to 500,000 drivers. The training program is a separate learning initiative: the Driver AI Assistant reach figure is not a participant count for GO Forward with AI.
What happens in an OpenAI GrabAcademy workshop
OpenAI describes half-day, in-person workshops delivered over the next few months. The sessions use OpenAI Academy curriculum adapted to the needs of partners in each country. GrabAcademy trainers will also receive training so they can bring the program to more people over time. That train-the-trainer approach helps explain how one regional program can be localized, but the announcement does not specify how many workshops each market will receive.
Participants will use ChatGPT for smaller planning tasks and try ChatGPT Work on larger exercises. OpenAI’s examples include converting sales data into a dashboard, building a simple website and developing an expansion plan. The announcement says participants will review the results and make the decisions that follow, an important boundary: the workshop is not presented as a system that runs a business autonomously or guarantees a useful outcome.
A sensible preparation step, offered here as editorial guidance rather than an official program requirement, is to bring one non-sensitive business question and a small sample of information that can be shared safely. A merchant might use invented weekly sales figures to practice spotting a pattern; a driver might outline a hypothetical side-business idea and ask for assumptions that need validation. Do not upload customer details, private account information or confidential commercial data merely to make an exercise more realistic.
Our research comparison prompt shows one way to ask an AI system to state criteria and uncertainties, while the source-matrix prompt demonstrates how to separate claims from evidence. These are independent site resources, not materials announced for the Grab workshops.
Access, registration and other limits
The official release leaves several practical questions open. It does not publish a registration URL, application deadline, price, eligibility checklist, language list or venue schedule. It also does not say that every Grab partner in a named country will automatically receive a place. Until Grab or GrabAcademy provides local instructions, claims about free enrollment, guaranteed seats or public access would go beyond the source.
If you are a Grab partner, watch the official Grab or GrabAcademy channel used in your market for an invitation or registration notice. Verify the country, date, venue and data requirements in that notice before sharing information or traveling. This is editorial advice based on the absence of public logistics in OpenAI’s announcement; it is not a confirmed registration process.
The six-country schedule may also change as local sessions are developed. OpenAI says workshops will be adapted to country needs, but it does not define the adaptations or promise identical exercises everywhere. The most reliable current facts are the 30,000-partner goal, two-year scope, country sequence, half-day in-person format and Academy-based curriculum.
Finally, the program announcement is about practical AI skills, not a new consumer model launch or a general change to ChatGPT access. Our prompt library can help readers practice structured tasks independently, but it does not confer a workshop seat or replace local eligibility information. The useful next step is therefore simple: confirm that your country is in the active rollout phase, wait for an official local notice, and treat any unverified signup link as unconfirmed until it matches Grab’s own channels.