Google's One AI Premium plan with Gemini Advanced is now free for students - for an entire year

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Finals play is here, and students everyplace are inundated with exams, projects, and late-night survey sessions. To assistance lighten the load, Google is making each of its astir precocious tools disposable for escaped to students.

Free Gemini Advanced

Gemini Advanced refers to Google's premium AI subscription tier, which grants users entree to its latest and astir precocious AI offerings. Typically, entree to Gemini Advanced is lone disposable done Google's One AI Premium Plan, which costs $20 per idiosyncratic per month.

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However, connected Thursday, Google introduced different enactment for students, giving them escaped entree to Google's One AI Premium Plan conscionable successful clip for finals. OpenAI launched a akin promotion past week, offering US students escaped entree to ChatGPT Plus during finals. 

Google's competitory edge? Students who enroll earlier June 30 volition person escaped entree done outpouring 2026.

The amusive part: Perks

The Gemini Advanced plan gives users entree to Google's astir precocious AI features, but what precisely does that include? There are truthful galore features that I americium listing them below, followed by an mentation of however I deliberation you tin usage them for finals:

• Gemini successful Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides: Perhaps the champion diagnostic is that users get Gemini AI assistance infused successful the Google suite of applications, which galore students trust connected for their mundane tasks. Some examples see Gemini coediting successful Google Docs, analyzing and visualizing information successful Google Sheets, and creating presentations successful Google Slides.
• Deep Research: This agentic diagnostic tin behaviour thorough probe connected your behalf, browsing the web and past including those findings successful a probe study with citations. It is meant to bash what would instrumentality a quality hours successful conscionable minutes. I tin spot it being particularly utile for getting started connected immoderate last papers, helping you find sources to commencement your writing.
• Gemini Live: Google's Gemini Live dependable adjunct sounds quality and tin person multi-turn conversations with you, beryllium interrupted, and travel your non-linear bid of thought. The conversational acquisition is truthful intuitive that it makes getting the assistance you request faster and easier. For example, if you are confused astir a conception from class, you tin chat with it similar you would a tutor and get broad answers. If you are inactive confused, you tin support going until you get the clarity you need.
• Canvas: The Canvas diagnostic changes the interface of what you spot successful Gemini. Users tin presumption the changes happening successful existent time, arsenic their archetypal contented is inactive disposable erstwhile the changes are being made. Although it tin beryllium hard to visualize without trying it for yourself, the large quality is that the changes hap to the existing contented alternatively of the chatbot adding the changes to a caller mentation placed close beneath it. It is particularly adjuvant for coding tasks, arsenic users tin adjacent presumption previews of HTML/React codification and different web app prototypes.
• NotebookLM Plus: NotebookLM is an experimental AI notebook that combines LLMs with idiosyncratic notes to further your knowing of a taxable by providing summaries, answering questions, and adjacent discussing your contented with you. NotebookLM Plus offers premium, subscriber-only features and 5 times higher usage limits to immoderate of NotebookLM's top features, including Audio Overviews, notebooks, queries, and sources per notebook. NotebookLM's Audio Overviews is particularly utile for students due to the fact that they tin provender it analyzable probe papers oregon people notes and person it work to them conversationally.
• Whisk: Whisk is simply a caller Google generative AI experimentation powered by Veo 2, which lets users make caller images from substance and representation prompts. With Whisk animate, a diagnostic launched conscionable this week, users tin present animate the images into eight-second videos. This diagnostic could beryllium a good, amusive distraction aft a agelong survey session.

Beyond AI features, Gemini Advanced users besides get 2TB of storage, which is simply a monolithic magnitude of unreality space. This tin beryllium utile for storing each of your task needs, including hundreds of thousands of photos oregon hundreds of hours of HD video, according to Google.

How to entree

Signing up is easy. Students simply motion up for the Google One AI Premium program connected the Gemini for Students site. Remember that you'll request to motion up earlier June 30 to get escaped entree until outpouring 2026.

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Even if you are not a Google AI user, this is simply a large accidental to effort it retired for yourself and spot if it's worthy the hype. You mightiness besides privation to motion up for ChatGPT Plus for escaped astatine the ChatGPT Students landing page. OpenAI's connection volition past until the extremity of May, erstwhile students are typically wrapping up finals.

If you motion up for both, you tin comparison which you similar amended and spot which is worthy the subscription outgo erstwhile the offers expire.

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