Bringing the best of AI to college students for free

Millions of college students around the world are getting ready to start classes. To help make the school year even better, we're making our most advanced AI tools available to them for free, including our new Guided Learning mode. We’re also providing $1 billion to support AI education and job training programs and research in the U.S. This includes making our AI and career training free for every college student in America through our AI for Education Accelerator — over 100 colleges and universities have already signed up.

Bringing the best technologies to every student has always been core to Google's mission. It's why we built Chromebooks for every classroom, and why we’ve been working on LearnLM, which has helped make Gemini the world’s leading model for learning.

It’s also deeply important to me. Having regular access to computers in grad school changed my life, and led me on the path to Google. It’s my hope that bringing the best AI tools to college students will open up new worlds for them, too.

Knowing how to use this technology will also serve these students well as they transition to the world of work. That’s why we are building on our years of experience with the Google Career Certificates to offer AI training free for all college students.

Here’s more detail on what we’re announcing:

Our most advanced AI tools for learning

Starting today, students (ages 18+) in the U.S. as well as in Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil can sign-up for a 12 month Google AI Pro plan for free. Here’s what they’ll get:

• Expanded access to Gemini 2.5 Pro: Ask any question and upload images. Our most capable model provides quick homework and writing help.
• Deep Research: Save time with custom research reports, providing in-depth information from hundreds of sites across the web with higher access to Deep Research on 2.5 Pro.
• NotebookLM: A one-of-a-kind thinking companion that helps you organize your thoughts, now with five times more audio and video overviews.
• Veo 3: Transform text or a photo into a 8-second video with sound using Veo 3
• Higher limits when using Jules, our asynchronous AI coding agent that can fix bugs and build new features for your coding projects.
• 2 TB of storage: tons of space for all your notes, projects, photos and papers on Google Photos, Drive and Gmail.

We’ll be expanding this offer to more countries in the coming weeks. Learn more about our tools or sign up for the free 12-month Google AI Pro plan by October 6.

Guided Learning: from answers to understanding

AI can broaden knowledge and expand access to it in powerful ways, helping anyone, anywhere learn anything in the way that works best for them. It’s not about just getting an answer, but deepening understanding and building critical thinking skills along the way. That opportunity is why we built Guided Learning, a new mode in Gemini that acts as a learning companion guiding you with questions and step-by-step support instead of just giving you the answer. We worked closely with students, educators, researchers and learning experts to make sure it’s helpful for understanding new concepts and is backed by learning science.

Using Gemini 2.5 Pro, students can work through things like complex math problems, structure arguments, get started on an essay, prep for a test, get homework help and a lot more. In addition to Guided Learning, we’re launching more tools to help students test their understanding of concepts with multimodal responses, including images, videos and interactive quizzes. And we’re making it easier for teachers to share these tools with students directly.

$1 billion for AI training and resources

Today’s students are the first true generation of “AI natives.” They’ll use these models in ways none of us can predict, whether it’s learning things in new ways or creating new types of jobs we haven’t imagined yet. It’s still early days and there will be important questions ahead. That’s why we’re working with institutions across higher education to ensure student success.

To support their success, we’re providing $1 billion in funding over three years for American education, including AI literacy programs, research funding and cloud computing resources. We’re also announcing the Google AI for Education Accelerator, an initiative to offer free AI training and Google Career Certificates to every college student in America. Over 100 public universities, including the University of Michigan, The Ohio State University, the University of Virginia and the University Systems in Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania have already signed up. We invite all accredited non-profit colleges and universities in the U.S. to apply.

This builds on our recent work to make Gemini for Education available to students and educators at educational institutions around the world at no additional cost. More than 80% of the top 100 U.S. universities use Google Workspace for Education, which gives them access to Google’s best AI purpose-built for schools. ¹

Getting our most powerful technology into students’ hands — while supporting them with training and infrastructure — is how they’ll shape the AI platform shift and make sure it benefits everyone. We can’t wait to see what the next generation of builders, artists and thinkers will do.