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Students ages 18+ get the Google AI Pro plan for free for 12 months.
Plan includes access to Deep Research, Veo 3, Jules, and more.
Part of a larger $1 billion investment in AI education and job training.
As AI tools continue to develop, they expand beyond the standard question-and-answer loop and offer more meaningful assistance for students. Google, for instance, has tools that can create podcasts for users from their notes, debug code, and create in-depth reports in seconds. Now, students can access all these tools for free.
On Wednesday, Google said that it is offering its Google AI Pro subscription tier to college students for free. To be eligible, you must be a student 18 or older in the US, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, or Brazil. The plan includes all of the best of Google's AI suite of tools, including expanded access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and NotebookLM, Deep Research, Veo 3, and Jules.
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This release comes at a time when there is a shift in how AI is being adopted by the education system. At the beginning, the tech was met with ample resistance, with school districts even banning it. However, more educators and schools have gotten on board due to the growing promise of the tech in aiding learning. For a glimpse of what these tools can do for you, keep reading below.
The Google AI Pro tier
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