Global AI for Learning Alliance (GAILA): Coordinating collective action to ensure AI advances learning outcomes in LMICs The potential for AI to transform education is undeniable, but its benefits are currently uneven. While early evidence shows promise, current investments and innovation are concentrated in a small number of contexts, with AI tools often underperforming in low‑ and middle‑income countries due to language gaps, limited local data, infrastructure constraints, and unclear system pathways for adoption.

Addressing these challenges requires more than isolated pilots or bilateral partnerships. It requires deliberate coordination to align governments, AI firms, and the education ecosystem around a small number of shared priorities – and to unlock barriers that no single actor can solve alone. The launch of the Global AI for Learning Alliance (GAILA) marks a collective response to this coordination challenge. Announced on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, GAILA (co‑led by UNICEF and partners, with the Secretariat operated by Dalberg and initial catalytic support from the Gates Foundation) serves as a focused global coordination mechanism to translate momentum on AI in education into concrete, measurable commitments.

The Questions We’re Asking:

1. How can AI be developed and deployed in ways that are aligned with government priorities and education system realities?

2. What shared public goods are needed to move from fragmented experimentation to system‑level learning outcomes?

3. How can global actors align incentives and contributions to raise baseline performance, safety, and access across contexts?

Watch to hear from the partners shaping this collective effort.