(1 Dec 2025) In March 2024, Ithaka S+R released a tracker of generative AI products for higher education, along with an issue brief detailing our observations on the generative AI product landscape for postsecondary research, teaching, and learning activities. Since then, the list of products on the tracker has more than doubled in length and become more cumbersome for its many users. Today, we are launching a new version of our tracker that we believe will ensure its future value. The GenAI Product Tracker contains updated information about postsecondary research, teaching, and learning products within a more user-friendly interface.
We have also refined the scope of the tracker. While our tracker previously sought to include all products that might reasonably be used by instructors, researchers, and students at the postsecondary level, the current version focuses on products that are marketed specifically towards these same users for teaching, learning, and research activities. We are no longer including general purpose AI products (e.g., ChatGPT, image or code generation products for various contexts, etc.) with use cases that can extend significantly beyond higher education in the tracker.
Since we began tracking generative AI products for higher education, the landscape has significantly evolved. Not only have new products emerged and others merged together, but product features have evolved in accordance with new capabilities in generative AI technology and changing user demands.
In updating the tracker, we have noticed a few trends in how products on the list have evolved. First, platforms or workspaces with multi-faceted capabilities have gained traction. Instead of going to one product for writing assistance, another to discover academic sources, and another to chat with an uploaded PDF document, users can increasingly complete some or all of these tasks with one product. Second, generative AI products for higher education increasingly incorporate agentic AI features. We anticipate that more of such features–which enable the completion of multi-step tasks–will continue to be incorporated into products.
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