Google expanded entry to the enterprise model of its widespread NotebookLM app, now referred to as NotebookLM Plus, concentrating on enterprises, groups and people who depend on the app’s analysis instruments.
The corporate additionally up to date its podcast-like Audio Overview function, which permits customers to work together with the AI hosts and ask questions out loud.
The analysis device, which lets individuals collect data into “notebooks” and ask questions with solutions from the supply materials, launched in July final 12 months on preview. It proved widespread and have become usually obtainable in December. Initially constructed with Gemini 1.5, NotebookLM has been upgraded with an experimental model of Google 2.0 Flash, Google mentioned.
After the Google workforce observed loads of totally different use instances for NotebookLM — together with many enterprise initiatives — the corporate launched NotebookLM Plus for enterprises, groups and people who use the applying lots. NotebookLM Plus could have 5 instances as many Audio Overviews, notebooks and sources per pocket book.
Premium customers may customise the type and tone of notebooks, share notebooks with workforce members, and see utilization analytics. Google mentioned it additionally added extra privateness and security measures.
NotebookLM Plus could be accessed by way of Google Workspace or Google Agentspace. Subsequent 12 months, NotebookLM Plus shall be included within the Google One AI Premium subscription.
Google introduced what was then referred to as NotebookLM Enterprise in October as a pilot program for brand new business-focused makes use of for the applying.
Audio interplay
Audio Overviews, the place customers can generate an audio dialog primarily based on the data within the pocket book, got here out in September and have become an immediate hit. The podcast-y nature of the audio provided a method to assist individuals digest advanced data by way of a dialog between two individuals and proved very talked-about.
The device typically featured two AI-generated hosts chatting concerning the data within the notebooks; now, NotebookLM customers can interject and ask questions utilizing their voice to get extra particulars or direct the dialog. Customers can create a brand new Audio Overview, faucet the “interactive” button after which click on on “join” whereas listening, and the AI hosts will name on the person to ask their query.
Interacting with the hosts of AI Overviews shall be obtainable solely on new Audio Overviews, not on present ones.
Google warned in a weblog put up that interacting with the Audio Overview continues to be experimental, and the “hosts may also pause awkwardly before responding or [may] occasionally introduce inaccuracies.”
Former NotebookLM product lead Raiza Martin had instructed VentureBeat that Google would introduce extra controls and interactions with Audio Overview.
All-new look
Google redesigned NotebookLM to assist customers “better manage content and ask the AI interface questions about their sources.”
The brand new look introduces three panels: a Sources panel for all of the paperwork or recordsdata uploaded to NotebookLM; a Chat panel to entry the Gemini chat field to interrogate knowledge sources; and the Studio panel for creating research guides, briefing paperwork and Audio Overviews.
“From the start, we wanted NotebookLM to be a tool that would let you move effortlessly from asking questions to reading your sources to capturing your own ideas. Today, we’re rolling out a new design that makes it easier than ever to switch between those different activities in a single, unified interface,” Google mentioned in a weblog put up.
Enterprise curiosity
Since its launch, NotebookLM has had varied makes use of, even within the enterprise area. Some have even claimed it’s a “CRM killer.”
Customers posted on social media concerning the other ways they’ve been utilizing NotebookLM. Sam Lessin, former vice chairman of product at Meta and basic associate at Gradual Ventures, mentioned on X that his agency makes use of NotebookLM as a substitute of a CRM.
Martin beforehand instructed VentureBeat that her workforce noticed many customers start sharing notebooks with others, making some notebooks the repository of information round firm insurance policies or mission analysis.
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