{"id":65757,"date":"2025-08-07T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65757\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:47:09","slug":"google-to-spend-1b-on-ai-training-in-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65757\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to Spend $1B on AI Training in Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 colleges and universities have already signed up for Google\u2019s new AI for Education Accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>Phiwath Jittamas\/iStock\/Getty Images Plus<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s parent company <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/gemini\/google-ai-pro-students-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced Wednesday<\/a> that it\u2019s planning to spend $1\u00a0billion over the next three years to help colleges teach and train students about artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Google is joining other AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, in investing in AI training in higher education. All three companies have rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2025\/08\/06\/understanding-value-learning-fuels-chatgpts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new tools<\/a> aimed at supporting \u201cdeeper learning\u201d among students and made their AI platforms available to certain students for free.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, Google is making its AI\u00a0Pro plan available for free to any student who is 18\u00a0years or older and lives in the United States or in Brazil, Indonesia, Japan or South Korea.\u00a0That plan includes Google\u2019s more advanced chat bot Gemini 2.5 Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The $1\u00a0billion will go to \u201cAI literacy programs, research funding and cloud computing resources,\u201d according to the announcement. The company also is offering free AI training to every college student as part of its new Google AI for Education Accelerator. More than 100 public colleges have signed on already, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s students are the first true generation of \u2018AI natives,\u2019\u201d Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote. \u201cThey\u2019ll use these models in ways none of us can predict, whether it\u2019s learning things in new ways or creating new types of jobs we haven\u2019t imagined yet. It\u2019s still early days and there will be important questions ahead. That\u2019s why we\u2019re working with institutions across higher education to ensure student success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"subscribe-box-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/themes\/custom\/ihe\/assets\/images\/svg\/envlope.svg\" alt=\"subscribe\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 100 colleges and universities have already signed up for Google\u2019s new AI for Education Accelerator. Phiwath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,4553,526,2250,4552,134,3,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-65757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-career","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-events","14":"tag-higher","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}