Cognita rolls out AI platform globally

Cognita did not just buy a chatbot for classrooms. In June 2025, the private schools group said it would roll out “Cognita AI” across its network after testing the system first, and the scale is unusually large for K-12 education: more than 100 schools, 95,000 students, and 17 countries. (cognita.com) The company paired that rollout with a partnership with Flint, a school-focused artificial intelligence tool that had already been piloted inside Cognita schools. Cognita said the pilot started small and then expanded globally only after results from six schools across four continents. (cognita.com) Those six pilot schools were not all in one market. They included campuses in Mexico City, Ho Chi Minh City, Dubai, London, and Barcelona, which let Cognita test the same software in different curricula, languages, and school cultures before pushing it everywhere. (pressreleasehub.pa.media) What the software actually does is fairly concrete. Cognita says teachers can use Flint to build custom activities, send different materials to different students, and give instant formative feedback, while students use it for extra practice, idea generation, and guided work on essays and languages. (cognita.com) That teacher role is the center of the pitch. Cognita’s chief education officer, Simon Camby, said the group chose Flint because it fit how its schools already teach, and Flint chief executive officer Sohan Choudhury said the goal was to “enhance, not replace” the teacher’s role in class. (pressreleasehub.pa.media) The rollout also comes with staff training, which is the part many school artificial intelligence launches skip. Cognita said onboarding would include custom professional learning for faculty, student lessons on artificial intelligence literacy, and resources for families so parents know how the system is being used. (pressreleasehub.pa.media) That caution lines up with the wider mood in education. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization warned in its 2023 guidance that generative artificial intelligence in schools needs data-privacy protection, age-appropriate design, and human oversight rather than open-ended use. (unesco.org) The same United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization survey found fewer than 10 percent of schools and universities had formal guidance on generative artificial intelligence use. Cognita is trying to turn that gap into a product and policy advantage by saying the software, the rules, and the teacher training all arrive together. (unesco.org) Cognita says the pilot improved outcomes in subjects including mathematics, languages, and college essay feedback, but it has not published detailed public data on effect sizes or independent evaluation in the announcement materials. For now, the headline is less “artificial intelligence taught the class” and more “a global school chain built a controlled lane for teachers to use it.” (cognita.com)