The Month "Study-First" & Deep Reasoning AI Went Mainstream
Hello Learning Futurists 👋
This month marks another potential inflection point in the story of AI and education: the rise to mainstream prominence of the “study-first” user experience.
Enabling learners to use AI to learn by pushing beyond answer retrieval is rapidly becoming a platform norm across major AI tools and models. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Behind the scenes, AI tools are getting both smarter and more collaborative—with new ways of combining multiple models to deliver the right answer, faster and more accurately than ever. Open-source AI releases are opening the door to hands-on experimentation, privacy-friendly deployments, and more customisable classroom workflows.
Meanwhile, tougher regulations—especially from Europe—are giving education leaders new leverage to demand transparency, quality and impact data from vendors.
In this month’s digest we will:
Reveal real-world test results from the latest study modes in ChatGPT and Gemini, showing what actually works—and where today’s “intelligent tutors” still fall short.
Take a deep dive into why GPT-5 and orchestration models are changing how millions learn (and what this shift means for both everyday users and power admins).
Take a first look at Google’s new explainer video tool, reviewing an example together to understand the risks and benefits of this popular new tool in the teaching & learning context.
Take a sneak peak at Genie 3 and explore its potential to usher in a new age of immersive, experiential “hands-on” learning.
Let’s dive in! 🚀