Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L), the world’s lifelong learning company, announced a strategic collaboration on Tuesday to help address one of the top challenges facing organizations globally: skilling for the era of AI. The partnership will focus on providing employers, workers, and learners with new AI-powered products and services to help prepare the current and future workforce across industries for the era of work in an AI-driven economy. By combining Pearson’s expertise in learning and assessment with Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies, this partnership will play a foundational role in helping organizations realize the full value of AI through reskilling.