With the new school year around the corner, Google is beefing up its AI lineup for students. Its latest addition to the Gemini app, Guided Learning, is built to help you grasp topics instead of just handing over answers. And if you’re a university student in select countries, you’re getting another shot at a free year of Google AI Pro.
Guided Learning helps break down tricky topics into step-by-step instructions, questions, and hands-on examples, as per Google’s blog post. You’ll be able to turn it on right from Gemini’s prompt bar once it rolls out. When it’s active, Gemini takes a more interactive route by checking what you know, clearing up confusion, and adding visuals to make things easier to follow.
Guided Learning runs on Google’s LearnLM, a set of models tailored for education and backed by real learning science.
Furthermore, Gemini now packs its answers with more visuals, like images, diagrams, and YouTube clips to make studying easier to follow. It can also pull together flashcards and study guides from your notes to help you prep faster.
Free AI Pro Plan for students in a few countries
Alongside the new Gemini updates, Google is giving college students in the US, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil a free year of its AI Pro plan. It was originally announced in April under the Google One AI Premium name, but in classic Google fashion, it’s now been rebranded to Google AI Pro.
The Google AI Pro plan comes with the upgraded Gemini 2.5 Pro, the latest version of its chat AI. You also get access to Deep Research, which can turn your files into personalized study guides and lessons. On top of that, there’s Veo 3 for high-end video generation and Jules, a coding assistant to help with dev work.
In addition, the plan unlocks Gemini across all Google Workspace apps, bumps up file upload limits for NotebookLM and Gemini 2.5 Pro, and throws in 2TB of storage.
Lastly, Google is putting over $1 billion into free AI training programs in the US over the next three years. The funding will go toward AI education, job training, and other learning initiatives to help more people get up to speed.
