IBL News | New York
To make the learning process more active, engaging, and effective, Google announced at the I/O 2025 annual event that it’s infusing its family of models, fine-tuned for education, with Gemini 2.5 LearnLM.
The Gemini’s multimodality feature allows remixing information into any format — audio, video, images, and text.
Another Google tool that has been enhanced is NotebookLM, which enables users to upload sources for research and makes the system an expert, presenting the outcome as audio Audio Overviews and Mind Maps.
Additionally, Google announced that it will soon introduce a feature that enables users to convert the content of their notebooks into educational videos.
Google continues to enhance its new search modality, called AI Mode, with advanced reasoning, multimodality, web links, the ability to ask follow-up questions, and soon, Deep Search.
In April, Google gave U.S. college students a free Gemini upgrade through 2026 final exams. The company is now expanding its offerings to students in Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Students in these countries will receive free access to the Google AI Pro plan for 15 months, helping them fine-tune their writing, study for exams, and get homework help, along with 2 TB of free storage, NotebookLM, and more.
Students globally will also have the ability to create custom quizzes to help them prepare for exams by simply asking Gemini to “create a practice quiz…” on any topic, or base them on uploaded documents such as class notes.
The quiz experience provides hints, offers explanations for both right and wrong answers, and provides a helpful summary at the end, highlighting areas of strength as well as those that may benefit from further study.
Later this year, the search giant will introduce Sparkify, which will turn users’ questions or ideas into short animated videos through the latest Gemini and Veo models.
With Project Astra, Google is prototyping a conversational, personalized tutor that can help with homework. The tools walk users through problems step-by-step, identify mistakes, and even generate diagrams to help explain concepts if they get stuck. This research project will be coming to Google products later this year. Android Trusted Testers can sign up for the waitlist to see a preview.
