Gemini's New Guided Learning Mode Can Quiz Students And Create Interactive Study Aids

Google is updating Gemini to make it a amended acquisition instrumentality pinch a caller characteristic called Guided Learning. Like akin learning-focused updates to ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to beforehand knowing by breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions and interactive examples, alternatively than simply providing an answer.

Guided Learning will beryllium disposable arsenic toggle successful nan punctual container of Gemini arsenic nan characteristic rolls out. When it's toggled on, Gemini will dainty questions arsenic much of a conversation, testing your knowledge, explaining concepts and moreover generating ocular aids, Google says. The characteristic is powered by Google's LearnLM, a postulation of models "fine-tuned for learning and grounded successful acquisition research."

On apical of Guided Learning, Google is besides offering a free year of its AI Pro scheme for assemblage students successful nan US, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil. Google technically announced this promotion backmost successful April for its Google One AI Premium plan, but fixed nan gait of AI and nan never-ending complexity of Google's branding, Google One AI Premium is now called Google AI Pro. The subscription unlocks entree to Gemini crossed Google Workspace apps, increases nan magnitude of files you tin upload to NotebookLM and Gemini 2.5 Pro and includes 2TB of storage. The subscription usually costs $200 per year, truthful nan savings are meaningful, moreover for conscionable nan storage.

Google has made heavy inroads into acquisition pinch Chromebooks and Google Workspace, truthful it makes consciousness that it would effort and leverage that bully will to create aggregate generations of AI-dependent users. Besides nan caller characteristic and promotion, nan institution says it's besides investing "$1 cardinal successful backing complete 3 years for American education" to screen things for illustration research, unreality computing resources and AI literacy courses. The extremity present is clear: Google's backing will thief non-profit universities trying to accommodate to student bodies already profoundly invested successful AI, and it could besides enactment arsenic trading for anyone who isn't already bought in.