Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be helpful in various fields. Recently, tech giants are beginning to focus their attention on education, for whom AI capabilities can be truly beneficial. Moreover, these tools are being offered for free. With such offers, OpenAI and Anthropic companies are reaching out to students, each aiming to capture their attention.
Competition Grows
AI competitors OpenAI and Anthropic both made their announcements about these offers approximately 24 hours apart. Both companies expressed their intention to capture a larger share of the educational market by offering AI tools to students for free before their graduation.
OpenAI laid the foundations for the academic market last year when it introduced the “ChatGPT Edu” version of its chatbot, and now Anthropic is following closely behind.
What Does Anthropic Offer?
On April 2, Anthropic introduced a specialized version of Claude – Claude for Education – designed specifically for higher academic institutions. As the company states, this initiative gives universities the opportunity to create and implement AI-driven methods for teaching, learning, and administrative tasks.
New platform provides secure access to AI services for the entire academic community. For example, students will be able to create literature reviews with proper citations, faculty will be able to provide personalized feedback on student papers efficiently, and administrative staff can automate repetitive email responses to common queries, and more.
Along with this announcement, the following features were introduced:
Learning Mode
A new experience for students, where the system guides their reasoning process rather than providing answers – helping to develop critical thinking skills. Instead of specific answers, the system will help point students in the right direction, suggest writing templates, presentation structures, introduce terminology, etc.
Availability
The company announces that its services are available to all students at the following education institutions: Northeastern University, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Champlain College.
The partnership includes 50,000 students, faculty, and staff across 13 global campuses.
Academic Partnerships
Users can join “Internet2,” work with “Instructure,” or use “Canvas LMS.”
“Internet2” is a non-profit organization providing secure high-speed networks, cloud solutions, research tools, and similar services. Meanwhile, “Instructure” is an educational technology company that develops the leading academic software, “Canvas.” The company is collaborating with these institutions to expand equitable access to AI tools.
Student Programs
The introduction of the Claude Campus Ambassadors program, along with an initiative offering API credits for student projects.
What Does OpenAI Promise?
Meanwhile, OpenAI has announced that U.S. students will be able to use “ChatGPT Plus” for free until the end of May during their academic journey.
The company shares that “ChatGPT” will assist them in their final steps, allowing students to access voice mode, video generation features, and “Deep Research” tools for academic research.
This tool can be useful for summarizing documents, conducting in-depth research, generating ideas, getting writing advice, or creating visuals for university projects.
Final Thoughts
These official and high-capacity AI integration opportunities in the education sector could be truly promising. In the coming years, we are likely to see increasing integration of technology in this sector, which will bring new opportunities for the entire academic community. It will transform everything: teaching methods, job nature, time costs, and introduce new aspects of control.
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