Gemini
Google's assistant, built into Gmail, Docs and Sheets, with Deep Research, Gemini Live and Canvas.
What it is
Gemini from Google is a multimodal assistant inside the Google ecosystem. The free plan includes Deep Research, Gemini Live, Canvas, and image creation and editing. The paid Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra plans give higher limits, video generation and access to the more advanced models. Since late September 2026, the chat has had Skills: routines you set up that run when a request matches. For building apps from a description, there's a separate tool, Google AI Studio.
- Text
- Video
- Images
Who it is for
Professions we suggest this tool for:
- Executive assistant and office manager
- K-12 teacher
- School principal
- Preschool teacher
- AI literacy teacher
- Prompt engineer
- AI trainer and data annotator
- AI evaluator and QA tester
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Price
Freemium
Plans and prices, with the date they were checked, are on this page: What's current
Where the course teaches it
- 1.2AI without fear: will AI take my job?
- 2.4Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini: AI models compared
- 5.1How much to spend on AI: $0 to $2,000 a month
- ★AI Mayak Academy Glossary: 2026
- ★The evolution of AI: 76 years from Turing to the agents of 2026
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Ready-to-use materials
- Your first day with an AI assistant · Setup, five practice tasks on your own work, rules for giving a task and a wrap-up for the day.
- Explain it like I'm new to it · Any topic or term in plain words: the gist, an analogy from your field, an example and common misconceptions.
- Check an answer for mistakes · Go through an AI answer claim by claim: what's right, what's doubtful, where it's wrong and what to check at the source.
- Summarize a document · A long document boiled down to the gist, key points with page references, numbers and deadlines, and questions for the author.
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Alternatives
- Claude · An AI assistant for long documents, analysis and code, with Claude Code and Cowork on paid plans.
- ChatGPT · OpenAI's mainstream AI assistant: chat, voice, images, the Work agent and Codex.
- Gemini Notebook · Formerly NotebookLM: upload documents, links and videos and get cited answers based on them.
- Google AI Studio · Google's free studio for Gemini: Build mode creates an app from a description or sketch.
Official site
Checked: October 2026 · source