Anthropic launched Claude for Education in April 2025. Despite early adoption by five U.S. universities and some activity in the UK and a few other countries (e.g. AU, NL), global HE traction seems limited, with more focus on coding and non-HE educational sectors. National agreements, so far only with Rwanda and India, tend to emphasize sschools or research collaboration over higher education.
The report on Ireland's universities and their adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) reveals a cautious approach, with three standout institutions: Dublin City University, University College Dublin, and University of Galway, each employing different strategies.
This report analyzes Manus, an autonomous AI agent launched in March 2025 by Butterfly Effect. Despite interest from institutions, searches reveal no campus-wide deployments, yet it has a strong focus on students. Its turbulent ownership remains unresolved at the time the research was concluded (late April 2026).
Opening up learning 