Google Is Gifting Gemini Advanced To US College Students
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1959204/google-is-gifting-gemini-advanced-to-us-college-students
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> Google has a [2]new landing page for the deal, allowing eligible students to sign up for their free Google One AI Premium plan. The offer is valid from now until June 30. Anyone who takes Google up on it will enjoy the free plan through spring 2026. The company hasn't specified an end date, but we would wager it will be June of next year. Google's intention is to give students an entire school year of Gemini Advanced from now through finals next year. At the end of the term, you can bet Google will try to convert students to paying subscribers.
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> As for who qualifies as a "student" in this promotion, Google isn't bothering with a particularly narrow definition. As long as you have a valid .edu email address, you can sign up for the offer. That's something that plenty of people who are not actively taking classes still have. You probably won't even be taking undue advantage of Google if you pretend to be a student -- the company really, really wants people to use Gemini, and it's willing to lose money in the short term to make that happen.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/google-is-gifting-a-year-of-gemini-advanced-to-every-college-student-in-the-us/
[2] http://gemini.google/students
Great! (Score:2)
Nothing is more positive than dumbing down students.
Not Gonna Lie (Score:2)
NotebookLM and its instant podcast from your notes and sources is amazing and should be more widely known.
There's a podcast sample on this page [1]https://blog.google/technology... [blog.google]
[1] https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews
Re: (Score:2)
The podcast thing is wild. I wish there was a local model that could do that. I'd love to feed it a PDF of one of my tax returns just to see what crazy ass content it would come up with.
Google is enslaving the next generation. (Score:2)
Teach 'em how they can't live without it for free during college, then charge them for life once they graduate.
And they say drug dealers are ruthless.
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In a typical university CS program, a lot of people join, and then drop out because they don't quite figure it out. (Usually they anthropomorphize the computer the wrong way.)
This will allow those people to stay in the program, and graduate with a CS degree.
The first taste is free (Score:2)
Google doing what Google does best...at least this time they're up front about it only being free for a year.