Not a babymaker, but ChatGPT maker, OpenAI. OpenAI is back in the ridesharing game, but this time with Grab Thailand. Grab is the leading ridesharing app in Southeast Asia.
Globally-renowned Grab has unveiled its newest partnership with OpenAI to enhance the AI skills of its drivers, merchants, and providers in the Southeast Asian country.
Generally, this joint project will train a whopping 3,000 Grab gig workers across the nation through practical artificial intelligence workshops. To be encouraged to continue, participants can get up to three months of free access to ChatGPT Plus, yes, ChatGPT Plus, which has a fee if you subscribe.
Tweet, tweet, tweet! First, the AI training. Since Grab’s system is wide, not just ridesharing, but also food deliveries, digital payments, and business solutions, operating in around eight countries, and over, get this, 900 cities across Southeast Asia, the partnership launches an initiative with OpenAI to upskill over 30,000 gig workers and businesspeople in the region in the next two years.
Second, what would be in the trainings? This AI training from Grab, not Grubhub, will help participants unlock agentic prowesses and capabilities, such as delegating multi-step tasks, building simple websites, and creating repeatable workflows, which are necessary for efficient operations.
Ong Chin Yin, Grab’s Chief Organizational Capability Officer, told the RSF team, “Our partners are intrigued by AI, and many are looking for practical guidance on how to apply it in ways that are relevant to their work.”
Third, where the workshops will happen. It’s not on TikTok, though there are several workshops nowadays being conducted on TikTok, such as wealth trainings and talks, but the CEO of Grab, Anthony Tan, stressed the significance of making artificial intelligence more successful, accessible, and usable for all.
He told RSF correspondents, “Giving accessibility is just one thing. It’s how do you translate it again to earnings to their pocket, upskilling, reskilling every one of them.”
Do attendees and participants need to travel to a certain location? No, since these valuable workshops will be conducted and held via the official Grab Driver App, the same app drivers use to find passengers. It will cover topics, such as customer engagement and retention, marketing and branding, as well as personal finance and first aid. The world lives in a high-tech dimension!
OpenAI is more than excited. Kiran Mani, OpenAI’s Asia-Pacific Managing Director, stressed the necessity for people to have not merely access but also skills and confidence to use AI.
He told RSF, “As we enter a new dawn of AI capabilities, it’s not enough for people to simply have access to AI. They also need the skills and confidence to use it.”
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