Global technology company Google has announced that it will invest $1 billion in education, professional training and research related to artificial intelligence (AI) at US universities.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post that this initiative will provide free artificial intelligence and career training to every American college student through the ‘AI for Education Accelerator’.
He said that more than 100 colleges and universities have become part of this program, this funding will be provided over the next three years, which aims to promote AI awareness, research scholarships, and cloud computing resources for students at universities across the country.
According to Sundar Pichai, we will provide free AI training and Google career certificates to every American college student under the ‘Google AI for Education Accelerator’.
Several public universities in Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, including the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and the University of Virginia, have already joined the program.
The $1 billion total includes the cost of Google’s advanced AI tools, such as the Gemini chatbot, which will be made available to students at no additional cost.
Sundar Pichai said the initiative is a continuation of Google’s recent global initiative “Gemini for Education,” under which AI facilities are being provided to students and teachers at no additional cost.
He added that more than 80 percent of the top 100 universities in the United States are already using Google Workspace for Education, which provides access to the best AI tools specifically for educational institutions.
