To take the lead in AI education, Google is trying to deeply embed its AI tools into the basic education system. Recently, Google has partnered with the education organizations ISTE and ASCD to officially launch a large-scale public welfare program aimed at providing free Gemini AI training for 6 million teachers across the United States.

The core of this initiative lies in enhancing the digital literacy of educators. AIbase learned that the training courses not only cover the usage skills of Google's flagship AI product Gemini, but also focus on promoting the smart note-taking tool NotebookLM. Through specific classroom examples, Google hopes to help teachers learn how to use AI to assist in teaching and guide about 74 million students across the US to safely and properly use artificial intelligence in their studies.

This large-scale free training is not only a charitable act, but also contains a profound ecological strategy. As industry analysts point out, by offering free training to the teaching community, Google can more effectively make students familiar with its AI ecosystem from an early age. Compared to the strategies of OpenAI and Anthropic, which focus on collaborating with universities to provide member discounts, Google has directly targeted the teaching community in K-12 (basic education) stages, covering a much wider range.

Currently, the program is expected to be launched in the coming months. Teachers interested can sign up directly through Google's official channels. With the popularity of AI tools in schools, this "land grab" for future user habits has already begun in the front lines of education.