Google AI announcements from September
We introduced new features into NotebookLM to help with learning. Our latest updates turn NotebookLM into your ultimate personal AI study partner, with a focus on active learning. You can instantly create flashcards and quizzes grounded in your own notes, generate upgraded reports with suggested formats like a blog post or study guide, and try the Learning Guide option for personalized, step-by-step tutoring. Plus, you can now hear your sources in new ways with Audio Overviews that offer perspectives like a Critique or a Debate.
We launched new resources to promote AI literacy for parents, students and educators. These resources include a new podcast for parents called “Raising kids in the age of AI,” expanded student programs like the Be Internet Awesome AI Literacy curriculum and the AI Quests game-based experience. This work includes substantial support for teachers, with over 650,000 educators trained so far and $40 million in grants dedicated to scaling AI literacy programs.
We introduced Guided Learning, a new, interactive study partner in the Gemini app. Powered by LearnLM, Guided Learning fine tunes our AI models for education, allowing people to navigate any topic, step-by-step, to ask questions and promote understanding. With helpful videos and images, the result is a personalized tutor that can break down complex code, create study plans from your uploaded material, and guide you to homework solutions without doing the work for you.
Sundar Pichai spoke at the White House AI Education Taskforce. Sundar highlighted Google’s major push to support AI education across the U.S., including offering Gemini for Education to every high school in America. It builds on Google’s broader $1 billion commitment to support AI education in the U.S., including giving all students and teachers access to our best AI tools, putting $150 million towards grants for AI education and digital wellbeing, and expanding our AI for Education Accelerator from 100 to 200 colleges and universities.
