The two leading AI, Opeli and Anthropic laboratories have just announced the main initiatives in the field of higher education. It is a continuous one -man, which we all got to know: this week Anthropic abandoned his advertisement at 8 am on Wednesday, and OpenAI with the aid of almost identical news at 8 am on Thursday.
For Anthropic, the announcement this week was his first crucial academic pressure. He launched Claude for Education, a university version of Chatbot. The company also announced partnerships from Northeastern University, London School of Economics (LSE) and Champlain College, along with Internet2, which builds university technological infrastructure and instruction (creator of the canvas) to enhance “fair access to tools supporting universities during AI integration.”
At the center of the Anthropic -oriented offer is “learning mode”, a modern function that changes the way of interaction with students. Instead of simply answering, the press message says that the learning mode will apply Socratic interrogation to lead students through problems, asking “how would you take it?” or “What evidence confirms your application?” – In order to aid students “developing critical thinking skills”, not just doing homework for them.
“As social scientists, we are in a unique situation to understand and shape how artificial intelligence can positively transform education and society,” said the president and vice -channel Lse Larry Kramer in Anthropic press release.
While anthropics are just entering higher education, Opennai has been busy in this space for almost a year. The startup launched ChatgPT EDU in May 2024-the university version of Chatbot, which was equipped with many partnerships in college. Last month, the company formed the Nextrenai consortium, undertaking to accelerate AI research at 15 universities. In February, Opeli also collaborated with California State University to bring ChatgPT EDU to all CSU campuses. Then, this Thursday, Opennai announced that Chatgpt Plus (which costs $ 20 per month) will be free for all college students until May.
The OpenAI initiative emphasizes that Chatgpt is “here to help the finals”, offering the benefits of layers, such as vast files, deep research and advanced voice functions.
“Today’s students face huge pressure to learn faster, solve more difficult problems and enter the labor force more and more shaped by AI. Supporting their skills AI means something more than showing how these tools work,” said the Vice President for Education at OpenAi Lea Belsky in the company’s press release.
Both laboratories releasing educational initiatives at the same time reveal high value of students. The race for embedding AI tools in the academic environment is a competition to shape the way the next generation works with AI – and most importantly, to become their default AI tool.