Generative artificial intelligence opens exciting possibilities for the IU community. Its ability to create content, code, analyze data, and more can help you uncover discoveries and solve problems with speed and elegance. Learn more about the resources, guidance, and safeguards in development.
Generative AI can transform the way you work, learn, and create by collaborating with you to generate content, enhance productivity, and support learning and innovative teaching.
Indiana University’s GenAI 101 course empowers anyone with an IU login to gain practical generative AI skills in a free, self-paced online course with no prior experience needed. All students will be auto-enrolled, while faculty and staff can easily opt in.
This program features a set of webinars and online workshops designed to improve AI and Generative AI literacies across Indiana University.
Several generative AI tools are widely available for faculty, staff, and students. Learn more about these tools, including their core features, data classification approvals, and usage guidelines.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with enterprise data protection is available at no cost for all users at IU over the age of 18. It is built into the Microsoft Edge browser and is available on the web. It is one of the recommended ways to use generative AI within the IU environment and has been approved to interact with data classified up to and including University-Internal data.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is a set of AI-driven productivity tools deeply integrated with Microsoft 365 applications and services such as Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and the rest of the Microsoft 365 suite. It interacts directly with documents in OneDrive and Teams storage spaces to which you have access. This is a paid service; the cost is $30/user/month, billed annually.
Google Gemini is a generative AI chatbot available at no cost to all IU students, faculty, and staff. It is one of the recommended ways to use generative AI within the IU environment. It works on the web and via mobile apps, and it has been approved to interact with data classified up to and including University-Internal data.
Google NotebookLM is an AI-powered research tool that helps you interact with your own documents through summaries, study guides, audio overviews, and more. It’s available at no cost for all IU students, faculty, and staff, and has been approved to interact with data classified up to and including University-Internal data.
ChatGPT Edu is a secure, privacy-focused version of ChatGPT. It is designed for responsible use with university data and ensures that information entered in IU's workspace is not used to train AI models. Faculty and staff have access now. Students: Unlimited access begins January 6, 2026.
As part of IU's software license with Adobe, you have access to the Firefly web app and generative AI features inside apps like Photoshop and Illustrator as well as Adobe Stock. This tool is used for generating and editing multimedia content, such as images, video, audio, and vector graphics.
Chat AIU is an AI-powered tool that leverages generative AI and IU data to deliver customizable chatbot experiences for university websites. It prioritizes data privacy while delivering reliable, context-aware responses.
Software developer teams at IU have a few options to integrate GenAI models into their projects, including cloud-based services like Azure OpenAI and on-premises solutions that leverage various open-source models.
Research and Academic LLM Services (REALLMS) provides a chat interface to the LLaMA model and other open-source LLMs that leverage UITS on-premises systems at no cost to researchers. This service is in beta/early user phase.
Research and Academic LLM Services (REALLMS) will provide an API to the LLaMA model and other open-source LLMs that will leverage UITS on-premises systems at no cost to researchers. This will initially be offered as a pilot service for research use cases.
At IU, several generative AI tools have undergone review and are approved for use with IU institutional data. See information outlined previously on this page as well as this more detailed resource about the available GenAI tools at IU.
Many other generative AI tools are publicly available online (for example, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, among others), some with a cost associated with them. These tools are not approved for any institutional data at IU, even when data are anonymized. You should take these precautions when using AI tools at IU.
Using a GenAI tool not listed above with IU institutional data must be reviewed by university data stewards via the Generative AI Product Request Form.
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