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AI Tools available for purchase

Premium AI Tools

Premium AI tools offer enhanced capabilities and deeper integrations with the software you already use. While Standard AI tools are great for everyday tasks, Premium tools help if you need AI assistance embedded directly into your workflow, more advanced reasoning capabilities, or features tailored to specific tasks like meeting management or complex research.

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Perplexity Enterprise Pro

For Everyone

Perplexity combines live web search with multiple leading AI models to provide up-to-date, citation-backed answers for quick and reliable research. Users can ask questions in natural language, upload files for analysis, and access advanced AI capabilities while benefiting from enterprise-grade security and privacy protections.

Key Features:

  • Perplexity’s default model, called Best, automatically chooses an appropriate model for your request, and is available without quota limits.
  • Responses include links to the underlying sources, making it easier to verify a claim, read the original reporting, or compare sources yourself.
  • You can connect Perplexity to your Texas A&M Microsoft or Google files.
  • Searching in Academic mode lets you target academic papers and databases rather than general web sources.

Employees: Purchase Perplexity

Students: Purchase Perplexity

Best For:
Faculty or students who need cited, source-based research, targeted searches of academic papers or a robust internal knowledge search of your own files.
Allowed Data
  • Public Data
  • University-Internal Data
  • FERPA Data
Ask
If you want to use HIPAA Data, please email security@tamu.edu.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

For Employees Only

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant integrated directly into the Microsoft 365 apps you already use every day, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

Key Features:

  • Utilizes your work context to provide more relevant answers and content.
  • Reduces overload with meeting summaries, action items, and catch-up capabilities
  • Accelerates content creation and data analysis by helping draft reports, build presentations, and extract insights from spreadsheets
Purchase Microsoft 365 Copilot
Best For:
Employees who want AI assistance built directly into their everyday Microsoft 365 workflow — drafting documents, analyzing data, summarizing emails, and more.
Allowed Data
  • Public Data
  • University-Internal
  • Some University-Confidential:
    FERPA, HIPAA, Government ID Numbers, Sensitive Personal Information, Financial Account Numbers, Personal Health Records and IRB controlled data
Not Allowed
Not approved for use with Export controlled data.

Microsoft Teams Premium

For Employees Only

Microsoft Teams Premium leverages the power of AI to enhance your standard Teams experience. This add-on license brings powerful tools designed to improve productivity, protect sensitive content, and provide a more professional meeting experience.

Key Features:

  • AI-powered meeting summaries, notes, and action items along with personalized meeting insights and productivity tools
  • Advanced meeting protection and sensitivity labels for secure collaboration
  • Intelligent recap and timeline features to catch up on missed meetings
Purchase Microsoft Teams Premium
Best For:
Employees who frequently host or attend online meetings, manage events, or collaborate across departments or organizations.
Allowed Data
  • Public Data
  • University-Internal
  • Some University-Confidential:
    FERPA, Government ID Numbers, Sensitive Personal Information, Financial Account Numbers and Personal Health Records
Ask
If you want to use HIPAA data, please contact security@tamu.edu.
Not Allowed
Not approved for use with IRB or Export controlled data.

Google AI Pro

For Employees Only

Google AI Pro is an add-on license that brings more advanced AI capabilities to your existing Texas A&M Google account.

Key Features:

  • Access to Google's most advanced AI models
  • Advanced reasoning capabilities for complex analysis.
  • Handles longer, more complex documents and datasets
  • Enhanced detail tracking across large volumes of information

Need more from Google AI?

Google AI Ultra is the top tier license and offers maximum compute, heavy media generation and more storage. Ask about Google AI Ultra.

Purchase Google AI Pro
Best For:
Employees who need to work with longer documents, track more complex details, and tackle tasks that require advanced reasoning.
Allowed Data
  • Public Data
  • University-Internal
  • Some University-Confidential:
    FERPA, Government ID Numbers, Sensitive Personal Information, Financial Account Numbers, Personal Health Records and IRB controlled data
Ask
If you want to use HIPAA data, please contact security@tamu.edu.
Not Allowed
Not approved for use with Export controlled data.

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Last Modified: September 22, 2026