College Students Can Get Microsoft Copilot Free For A Year - Here's How

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• College students tin get Copilot free for a year.
• They tin motion up done Oct. 31 to redeem it.
• After nan trial, they tin prevention 50% disconnected nan monthly price.

College students aren't being near down successful nan AI race. Microsoft is providing students and module pinch nan devices to build their AI accomplishment sets successful a sweeping caller initiative, it announced astatine nan White House's AI Education Task Force meeting.

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"We judge delivering connected nan existent committedness of AI depends connected really broadly it's diffused. This requires finance and invention successful AI education, training, and occupation certification," it wrote successful a property release.

How to get free Copilot AI

The tech elephantine is offering free Copilot successful Microsoft 365 to assemblage students for a afloat year. After nan 12-month free trial, students tin proceed pinch Microsoft 365 Personal astatine a discounted complaint of $4.99 per month, redeeming much than 50% disconnected nan regular price. 

To declare nan offer, visit this Microsoft page and register. The promotion runs done Oct. 31 and includes entree to Microsoft apps for illustration Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook, on pinch 1TB of unreality storage. Full- and part-time students astatine accredited colleges and universities are eligible pinch a schoolhouse email reside aliases different accepted documentation. 

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Ninety-two percent of students are already utilizing AI, according to caller findings. The one-year connection gives students a instrumentality they're already depending connected successful nan classroom, free of charge. 

Microsoft will besides connection free LinkedIn AI courses and Copilot entree to students and teachers, pinch a attraction connected providing nan devices safely and pinch age-appropriate safeguards successful place. With this announcement, Microsoft besides adds 100 AI courses to LinkedIn for professionals to return and build their AI accomplishment sets.

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Through Microsoft's business pinch nan American Association of Community Colleges and nan National Applied AI Consortium, Microsoft is sponsoring no-cost AI webinars and certifications for organization assemblage staff. Thirty organization colleges will person grants for AI learning initiatives, wherever they will study really to merge generative AI and Microsoft Copilot into their faculty. Faculty and unit will taxable an exertion to beryllium considered for nan skills training.

Fastest-growing chatbot

The caller AI skills offerings will get Copilot successful nan hands of moreover much users -- not that it needs it. Within nan past fewer months, Copilot has become nan fastest-growing chatbot, pinch usage surging by much than 175%.