Google One AI Premium is free for college students until Spring 2026

Google is the latest AI service provider to court users in higher education. Starting today, college students in the US can sign up for Google’s One AI Premium plan for free, shirking the usual $20 monthly subscription fee until June 30th, 2026. Applicants will need to sign up before the deal expires on June 30th, 2025 according to Google spokesperson Alex Joseph, and will need a valid .edu email address for verification. He told The Verge that students will be emailed toward the end of their plan, “so you will have plenty of time to cancel.” The plan includes 2TB of cloud storage and access to an assortment of Google’s AI offerings that aim to help students “study smarter.” Google One AI Premium includes Gemini 2.5 Pro-powered tools like Gemini Advanced, which is Google’s competitor to ChatGPT Plus, and Gemini Deep Research features that can be used to summarize complex topics and convert reports into a podcast-style audio format. Users can also access NotebookLM Plus for more stud ... Read full article.