Stanford AI Tools: October 2026 Platform Updates

ChatGPT Edu, Google Gemini Enterprise, and Claude for Education remain available to all Stanford faculty, students, postdocs, and staff. Here's what's new across these services in October.

Anthropic Claude for Education

Claude for Education bundles Claude Chat, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork for teaching, learning, research, and administrative work. Access requires a quick request form on the Claude for Education service page.

What's new

• Claude connectors for Google Sheets, Docs, and Slides are now available.
• Claude Science is now enabled. This desktop app supports scientific research and analysis, including work with data and code. See Anthropic's setup guide for supported operating systems and how to get started.
• Remote Control is now enabled. You can continue a local Claude Code session from your phone or a web browser while the computer running the session remains on. See Anthropic's guidance for how this feature works.
• The Morning Consult connector has been enabled. If you have access to Morning Consult Intelligence, you can use the connector to ask Claude questions about its consumer research data feeds. Find it on Stanford's available connectors page.

Reminder: migrate personal Claude accounts by December 31

If you signed up for a personal Claude account with your stanford.edu email, you need to migrate to a Stanford Claude for Education account before Dec. 31. Personal accounts tied to your stanford.edu email will stop working Jan. 1, 2027.

Here's what to do before Dec. 31:

• Request a Standard or Premium account on the Claude for Education service page. Standard is free for active faculty, staff, postdocs, and students; Premium has a fee and needs PTA approval.
• Use remaining personal Claude credits, as they won't transfer to your Stanford account.
• To keep chats, projects, artifacts, connectors, skills, or memory, migrate them using the guides on the UIT AI connectors page. Anything not migrated or archived by Dec. 31 becomes inaccessible. Migration instructions are on the Claude FAQ page under the item titled, "How do I migrate my personal Claude account to the new Stanford offering?"

More questions about migration? Message the UIT AI team.

OpenAI ChatGPT Edu

ChatGPT Edu gives you access to OpenAI's models for writing, research, and analysis, plus Codex for building custom apps, websites, presentations, and workflows. Access requires a short request form on the ChatGPT Edu service page.

What's new

• GPT-6.1 Sol is now enabled. The new model offers another option for coding, reasoning, and tasks involving multiple steps.
• ChatGPT Space is now accessible. Space brings shared pages, files, and project context together so you can collaborate with colleagues and ask ChatGPT or Codex to help develop and update your work. Collaborative slides and spreadsheets are coming later. Learn more about Space.

Google Gemini Enterprise

Gemini Enterprise activates automatically with SUNet ID sign-in. Gemini 4 Argon is now available in Gemini Enterprise.

AI Playground

The AI Playground provides access to several new models, including OpenAI GPT 6.1 Sol, and both Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5. Additionally, the team has added Fireworks AI, a high-performance platform for deploying open-source AI models. Under the Fireworks menu option, you will see additional new models such as Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash.

AI API Gateway

Several new models have been added to the AI API Gateway including Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1, Sonnet 5.5, and Claude Haiku 5.5, as well as OpenAI 6.1 Sol, GPT-Realtime-2.1, and GPT-Realtime-2.1 Mini. In addition, Fireworks AI has also been enabled in the AI API Gateway to help provide access to new open source models, including: Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3, and GLM 5.3 Flash.

To add these or other new models to an existing key, use the Change or Cancel AI API Gateway Key Service form.

Access and pricing

For heavier workloads, discounted Pro/Premium tiers of all three tools remain available for purchase on a Stanford PTA. Full details, including data classification guidance for each tool, are on the Approved AI Services Matrix.

Questions about which tool fits your work, or how data classification rules apply? Visit the UIT AI page or submit a Help request.