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Malta Offers Free ChatGPT Plus After AI Course Completion

5/16/2026

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OpenAI Grants Free Access

OpenAI and Malta’s government will give free ChatGPT Plus access to all citizens and residents.
Users must finish the “AI for All” online course from the University of Malta to qualify.
The Malta Digital Innovation Authority will manage subscriptions and expand the program as people complete the course.
The program starts in May as OpenAI’s first national-government partnership, following similar initiatives in Iceland, Greece (Sept 2025) and the UK (Feb 2025).

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Malta Regulates AI

Malta will treat AI access as a utility to make the technology broadly available, managed and linked to public benefit.
The state-backed program mandates identity verification, eligibility rules and raises training-data use questions, creating privacy and governance challenges.
Compliance is now built into AI startup design, while subsidies could flatten the paid-user market and make the model a template for other small nations.

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OpenAI Grants Free Access

OpenAI and Malta’s government will give free ChatGPT Plus access to all citizens and residents.
Users must finish the “AI for All” online course from the University of Malta to qualify.
The Malta Digital Innovation Authority will manage subscriptions and expand the program as people complete the course.
The program starts in May as OpenAI’s first national-government partnership, following similar initiatives in Iceland, Greece (Sept 2025) and the UK (Feb 2025).

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