Google has announced it is offering various AI tools for free to students in the U.S. and other select countries. “Excited to make our best AI tools free for college students in the US + other select countries for a year – and to provide $1B in funding for education + research, including free AI and career training for every college student in America,” CEO Sundar Pichai said via X.
Pichai also announced in a blog post that the company will be making its most advanced AI tools available to students for free including its new Guided Learning mode. It will also provide AI education and job training programs and research in the U.S., including making AI and career training free for college students in America with the company’s AI for Education Accelerator. Over 100 universities and colleges have already signed up, according to Pichai.
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Pichai states that bringing the best technologies to students has always been “core to Google’s mission,” which is why they have “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.”
Google will be offering students over 18 in the U.S. as well as in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Brazil the 12 month Google AI Pro plan for free. The plan would give them expanded access to Gemini 2.5, which would enable them to obtain quick homework and writing help. It will also provide deep research capabilities, and access to NotebookLM, a thinking companion that helps organize thoughts. There’s also Veo3, which allows users to transform text or photos into eight second videos, and the asynchronous AI coding agent Jules, to which the plan provides higher limits. The plan will also offer 2TB of storage which can provide extra space for notes, projects, papers.
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This comes at a time when AI is gaining increasing prominence in education, and major tech companies are competing with each other in a heated race. Helping to master AI tools might help students find a foothold in the workforce at a time when major companies are scaling back on hiring new graduates with some experts blaming AI for these decisions. Recent data from career platform Handshake shows that listings for entry-level jobs were down 15% over the past year.
A report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows that employers attributed at least 10,000 job cuts from the beginning of the year through July explicitly to AI. They cut another 20,000 positions for other reasons related to technological innovation, according to the report.