r/GoogleGeminiAI

The student plan is back in time for the new school year!!

https://one.google.com/ai-student

“The free Google AI Pro student offer is available to eligible U.S. college students ages 18–24. Both new users and students whose 2025 AI Pro trial has expired can qualify. Eligibility must be verified each year to maintain access.” From googles site here https://gemini.google/students/

So it needs to expire first basically

So 141 countries qualify for a year free and Canada is one of the only countries that doesn't?...

I see google offers the student plan again, if i already got offered the $5 a month offer and took it for a year, can i still redeem the free year? Because i redeemed it but google play still says ill be charged $5 a month?

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I asked Gemini to give me some exercises for problem-solving with a sample test case and expected output, and see the explanation it gave at the last "Sum = 1+2+3+4+8+3+2+1+9+5 = 35," but the answer is 38, right?

I'm surprised this gives the wrong answer on simple addition. Or am I missing something?

EDITING TO ADD: I'm using (an old) Samsung Galaxy S10+ Android phone.

If I'm posting in the wrong sub, please let me know!

I am sad that Google Assistant is being killed off by Google like so many other of their features.

I used to be able to say "Hey, Google. Add apples to my shopping list." And GA would say "I've added apples to your list called Shopping List."

However, with Gemini, it's a frustrating experience. "Hey, Google. Add apples to my shopping list." Gemini retorts (after a much longer pause than GA) "Sure, you want to add apples to this list. Do you want to go ahead and add to it right now?" I can't just answer "Yes." I literally have to say, "Hey, Google. Go ahead and apples to my shopping list right now." Then Gemini will say "Okay. It's done."

I have tried telling Gemini that when I ask it to add something to my shopping list, to add it immediately without confirming. It says it will do that. But the very next time I ask it to add something to my shopping list, it asks if I want to go ahead and add it right now.

Why on earth is Gemini doing this? Is there a setting I'm overlooking or something? Grrrr!!!

I am a Gemini pro subscriber and have been experiencing constant, disruptive generation errors starting today when submitting simple prompts, specifically around parsing network IP data, conducting research, and structuring the output into a table. Even when opening a brand new chat session and submitting a prompt on the very first turn, the system repeatedly fails and outputs generic refusals such as stating it is having a hard time fulfilling the request or that it seems to be encountering an error. Even saying just "Hello" is enough to receive those errors.

This issue is occurring across both Flash and Flash Lite models, and I have not attempted Pro as it is unnecessary overkill for such a lightweight query. My quota is nowhere near exhausted, with daily usage sitting at roughly two percent and weekly usage at three percent. I have already performed extensive local troubleshooting, including hard cache refreshes and switching over to an alternative network to ensure local firewall or DNS filtering rules are not interfering with web socket streaming.

The only unreliable workaround (usage via chrome on windows 11) at present is making arbitrary edits to the text input, such as adding a trailing space or deleting a full stop, and resubmitting until the model randomly decides to process the request instead of erroring out. Having to repeatedly modify and resend prompts makes the service completely unusable for basic tasks. I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing this issue, and whether there is an active backend service degradation or a newly introduced safety filter false positive affecting the Flash endpoints today?

maybe there is an AI subreddit discussion about it, so if you find one, just link it on the comments.

I found out there is a way of removing it on chrome PC, but I almost don't use PCs anymore, and the search engine thing doesn't work for Chrome Android and isn't perfect on the PC either.

everywhere I read people complaining about it but no one telling a way of removing AI slop.

TL;DR: 3.7 Flash is amazing for coding, instruction following, less sycophantic than 3.1 Pro, better at abstract reasoning/creativity than previous Flash models (yes, even better than 3 Flash), and great with long contexts.

Tho you should use 3.1 pro or other models for implementation plan, not 3.7 flash. It's not the best.

The harness is a bit bad, use MCP's like playwright and what not then make a rule for it to use appropriate MCP's all the time for the appropriate task.

What is it bad at?
Well, it's not particularly bad at anything (except conversationally), at least compared to previous Flash models and some SOTA models. But compared to 3.1 Pro, here are its limitations: it's a little worse at pure logic. 3.1 pro is better for pure reasoning/creativity and quite poor conversationally, even compared to standard Flash models.

It's not like the model can't do anything else (I tried some creative writing to test its flexibility), but its default style is agonizing. It uses way too many diagrams that don't render properly in AI Studio. Even if I explicitly tell it not to do that, it doesn't know how to stop because it fails to distinguish what gets marked as "code."

No matter what prompt or instruction you use, it just doesn't seem to work—unless I'm missing something, in which case I'd love to be corrected! :D

On 3.8 Flash rumors:
If you've heard rumors that 3.8 Flash is coming out soon... it's likely true. It could drop next month, but take unofficial "claims" with a grain of salt. I trust leakers like Leo and Lentils to an extent, but they often inject too much personal bias with phrases like "Google is cooked."

That said, Leo has been much more objective lately, likely because of the conversation I had with him in discord. Shi could make me cry. Why do I expect 3.8 next month anyway? Sundar stated they're targeting monthly (or near-monthly) releases, so expecting a new iteration soon is pretty reasonable!

Please share any lies told by AI here in this post or any comments in regard to. Is everyone aware there is a class action lawsuit against AI companies? When AI does not know an answer to a question, It just makes one up... instead of saying "I don't know". Let this be a warning to everyone who uses AI.

My husband currently uses Gemini/ChatGPT whenever we argue. Should I be alarmed? I told him this is weird and how this actually can help in a relationship? It’s designed to tell you what you want to hear.