Google said it will provide U.S. colleges and universities with $1 billion worth of artificial intelligence education and job training tools.
The three-year commitment will also make the programs available to non-profits, free of cost, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post.
So far, the tech giant says it has partnered with more than 100 public universities, including Texas A&M and the University of North Carolina. All accredited, non-profit colleges and universities in the U.S. are eligible for the partnership.
The push comes as the world’s biggest tech companies, including Microsoft and Meta, are vying for dominance in the AI space. At the same time, some corporate leaders have predicted that generative artificial intelligence could allow their businesses to trim their human workforce due to the tech’s productivity gains.
Future professionals must become fluent in AI to succeed professionally, as more companies lean on new AI tools to improve efficiency, Google’s Pichai wrote.
Google said it will provide U.S. colleges and universities with $1 billion worth of artificial intelligence education and job training tools, the company announced Wednesday.
The three-year commitment will also make the programs available to non-profits, free of cost, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post.
So far, the tech giant says it has partnered with more than 100 public universities, including Texas A&M and the University of North Carolina. All accredited, non-profit colleges and universities in the U.S. are eligible for the partnership.
The push comes as the world’s biggest tech companies, including Microsoft and Meta, are vying for dominance in the AI space. At the same time, some corporate leaders have predicted that generative artificial intelligence could allow their businesses to trim their human workforce due to the tech’s productivity gains.
Future professionals must become fluent in AI to succeed professionally, as more companies lean on new AI tools to improve efficiency, Google’s Pichai wrote.
Here’s what students can access
All college students can sign up for a 12-month Google AI Pro plan, which gives them:
- Access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s most advanced AI model which it says is a “thinking” model that is “capable of reasoning.” For students’ benefit, it “provides quick homework and writing help,” according to Google
- Deep Research: The tool can compose custom research reports, based on information from the internet
- NotebookLM: The “thinking companion” can help students organize their thoughts, according to Google
- Veo 3 can transform text or an image into a short video
- Expanded access to Jules, an AI coding agent
