Learn in newer, deeper ways with Gemini
Making knowledge accessible to everyone has always been our highest priority, which is why people turn to our products each day to help them learn — for school, work or life. With AI, we can do this at a speed and scale never before possible, and make the process of learning more active, engaging and effective. By building tools that enable you to keep pace with your own curiosity, in formats that match your goals and preferences, we hope to help everyone in the world learn anything in the world.
This fundamentally starts with really capable models. We can make models even better when we refine them for specific uses. That’s why last year, we introduced LearnLM: our family of models and capabilities fine-tuned for learning. For years we’ve been working with education experts to research, measure and improve on building AI systems that support effective learning practices.
At I/O 2025, we announced that we’re infusing LearnLM directly into Gemini 2.5, which is now the world’s leading model for learning. As detailed in our latest report, Gemini 2.5 Pro outperformed competitors on every category of learning science principles. Educators and pedagogy experts preferred Gemini 2.5 Pro over other offerings across a range of learning scenarios, both for supporting a user’s learning goals and on key principles of good pedagogy.
By applying LearnLM capabilities, and directly incorporating feedback from experts across the industry, Gemini adheres to the principles of learning science to go beyond just giving you the answer. Instead, Gemini can explain how you get there, helping you untangle even the most complex questions and topics so you can learn more effectively. Our new prompting guide provides sample instructions to see this in action.
Applying Gemini’s LearnLM capabilities to our products
Learning science also shows that providing information in multiple modalities can help enhance learning, and with Gemini’s multimodality, there are more ways than ever to remix information into any format — audio, video, images and text — tailored to what works for you. Here’s how we’re applying these capabilities, and other advancements, to our products:
NotebookLM
NotebookLM is a tool that enables you to research and learn from a specific set of sources. Once you upload your sources, the notebook instantly becomes an expert, grounding responses in your material and giving you creative ways to transform information. Audio Overviews (now available in more than 80 languages) and Mind Maps are two ways you can explore and understand your source material like never before through customized deep dives into the content.
This week we’re bringing more flexibility to Audio Overviews, allowing you to select the ideal length for your summaries, whether you prefer a quick overview or a deeper exploration. This will start in English and expand to more languages soon.
We’ve heard from users that they’d like more visual clues during the overviews, so coming soon we’ll introduce Video Overviews where you can turn the content of your notebook into an educational video. Here’s a preview:
Search
People come to Google Search every day to learn. Learning is full of nuance, and details that must be understood while you’re exploring the web. That’s why AI Mode, our most powerful AI search, features more advanced reasoning and multimodality, allowing you to go deeper through helpful links to the web and the ability to ask follow-up questions if you need to better understand some aspects of a topic. Soon, we will also be bringing deep research capabilities to AI Mode with Deep Search, so you can dive even deeper on your toughest questions. AI Mode is rolling out to everyone in the U.S., starting today.
Learning requires reliable, high-quality information, and coming this week, we’ll bring a custom version of Gemini 2.5 — our most intelligent model — to both AI Mode and AI Overviews in the U.S. so that you can ask anything, including your hardest questions, and easily get helpful AI responses with links to the web.
Learning also takes place in the context of the world around us. So we’re taking a big step in multimodality by bringing Project Astra’s live capabilities into AI Mode with Search Live. Beyond asking questions with text and images, soon you’ll be able to show Search what you see and ask questions about things in the world around you in real-time. Search will provide helpful information with links to explore along the way as you go back-and-forth. Search Live is coming to Labs this summer, perfect for heading back-to-school.
The Gemini app
Last month, we gave U.S. college students a free Gemini upgrade through 2026 final exams, and now we’re expanding that offer to students in Brazil, Indonesia, Japan and the United Kingdom. Students in these countries who sign up by June 30, 2025, will get free access to the Google AI Pro plan for 15 months to help fine-tune their writing, study for exams and get homework help along with 2 TB of free storage, NotebookLM and more.
Starting to roll out today, students (ages 18 and up) globally will also have the ability to create custom quizzes to help them prepare for exams. Simply ask Gemini to “create a practice quiz…” on any topic, or base them on uploaded documents such as class notes. The quiz experience is interactive, giving hints, showing explanations for right and wrong answers and offering a helpful summary at the end with areas of strength along with areas that might benefit from more study.
More experiments for learning
We’re constantly experimenting with new ideas to enhance learning. We know videos can be a helpful learning tool, and our new Labs experiment Sparkify helps you turn your questions or ideas into a short animated video, made possible by our latest Gemini and Veo models. These capabilities will be coming to Google products later this year, but in the meantime you can sign up for the waitlist for a chance to try it out.
Providing personalized tutoring remains a key goal and with Project Astra, we’re prototyping a conversational tutor that can help with homework. Not only can it follow along with what you’re working on, but it can also walk you through problems step-by-step, identify mistakes and even generate diagrams to help explain concepts if you get stuck. This research project will be coming to Google products later this year and Android Trusted Testers can sign up for the waitlist to see a preview.
We’re also bringing improvements based on your feedback to Learn About, an experimental Labs project where conversational AI meets your curiosity. Through LearnLM capabilities now in Gemini models, we can deliver even more nuanced explanations and relevant connections. We’re making this experience available for more learners (including teens), adding session history so you can pick up where you left off and offering the ability to upload your own source documents so Learn About can ground explanations in your course materials, notes or research papers.
