Once again, big headlines from the frontier model providers touch on core education needs, and the Edtech Insider community was also abuzz about
Google Launches Guided Learning Mode + AI Training and Free Access for College Students
Google released a series of announcements, including giving free access to Google AI Pro to international students (U.S, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil) as well as offering AI literacy and career training to a massive group of learners.
Launching the Google AI for Education Accelerator: This initiative will offer free AI training, Google Career Certificates, and Google’s most advanced AI tools to every college student in America for free. Over 100 universities representing millions of students have already signed up, and we invite all accredited non-profit colleges, universities (and community colleges) in the U.S. to apply.
Finally, and most relevant to Edtech, Google released of “Guided Learning Mode”, a top-level Gemini feature that allows students to interact with a version of Gemini designed for teaching and learning.
This comes less than two weeks after OpenAI announced ChatGPT’s Study Mode, and signals that the education and learning (especially informal learning) use case remains top of mind and an area of contention among frontier providers.
