This week brought exciting news about artificial intelligence (AI) helping students learn better around the world. Three big organizations—Arizona State University (ASU), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cintana Education—are working together to create smart AI tools for schools. These special AI tools, called agentic AI, can do jobs on their own, like helping students apply to college and tutoring them in different languages.

The partnership is special because students are actually building these tools. Young student workers at ASU are designing and testing the AI agents alongside cloud experts. This gives the students real-world experience while creating solutions that help other students succeed.

Another company called Druid AI showed off its powerful new platform designed to help entire universities work better. The platform helps with many tasks, from helping students get admitted to universities all the way to helping them do well in their classes. Schools like Columbus State University and Georgia Southern University are already using these AI tools.

Universities in countries like the Philippines and Ecuador will be the first to try out the new ASU partnership AI tools. This is important because it means these smart tools are being designed to help students everywhere, not just in wealthy countries.

The big picture is clear: intelligent AI agents are becoming a normal and important part of college life and student success. These tools are making it easier for students to get help when they need it, in their own languages, and at any time of day.