California leaders announced Thursday new partnerships between tech industry giants and the state’s public higher education system, high schools and middle schools.

At Google's San Francisco headquarters, a slew of companies that include Adobe, Amazon Web Services, IBM, Google and Microsoft said they will make their products available, at “no cost to the state,” according to the governor’s office.

Why the deal?

To succeed in the workforce, it’s essential for students to become “AI-fluent,” said California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian.

Gov. Gavin Newsom noted that even careers that were recently very lucrative, like software engineering, have rapidly transformed , in part because AI can do the work that recent grads were traditionally hired to take on.

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