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Google expanded entry to the enterprise model of its standard NotebookLM app, now known 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 software, which lets folks collect data into “notebooks” and ask questions with solutions from the supply materials, launched in July final 12 months on preview. It proved standard 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 crew observed a variety of completely different use instances for NotebookLM — together with many enterprise tasks — the corporate launched NotebookLM Plus for enterprises, groups and people who use the appliance so much. NotebookLM Plus could have 5 occasions as many Audio Overviews, notebooks and sources per pocket book.
Premium customers also can customise the type and tone of notebooks, share notebooks with crew members, and see utilization analytics. Google mentioned it additionally added extra privateness and safety features.
NotebookLM Plus could be accessed via Google Workspace or Google Agentspace. Subsequent 12 months, NotebookLM Plus can be included within the Google One AI Premium subscription.
Google introduced what was then known as NotebookLM Enterprise in October as a pilot program for brand new business-focused makes use of for the appliance.
Audio interplay
Audio Overviews, the place customers can generate an audio dialog based mostly on the knowledge within the pocket book, got here out in September and have become an immediate hit. The podcast-y nature of the audio supplied a method to assist folks digest advanced data through a dialog between two folks and proved extremely popular.
The software typically featured two AI-generated hosts chatting in regards to 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 “be a part of” whereas listening, and the AI hosts will name on the person to ask their query.
Interacting with the hosts of AI Overviews can be obtainable solely on new Audio Overviews, not on current ones.
Google warned in a weblog put up that interacting with the Audio Overview continues to be experimental, and the “hosts might also pause awkwardly earlier than responding or [may] sometimes introduce inaccuracies.”
Former NotebookLM product lead Raiza Martin had advised VentureBeat that Google would introduce extra controls and interactions with Audio Overview.
All-new look
Google redesigned NotebookLM to assist customers “higher handle content material and ask the AI interface questions on their sources.”
The brand new look introduces three panels: a Sources panel for all of the paperwork or information 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 beginning, we needed NotebookLM to be a software that may allow you to transfer effortlessly from asking inquiries to studying your sources to capturing your personal concepts. At present, we’re rolling out a brand new design that makes it simpler than ever to change between these completely different actions in a single, unified interface,” Google mentioned in a weblog put up.
Enterprise curiosity
Since its launch, NotebookLM has had numerous makes use of, even within the enterprise house. Some have even claimed it is a “CRM killer.”
Customers posted on social media in regards to the other ways they’ve been utilizing NotebookLM. Sam Lessin, former vice chairman of product at Meta and basic associate at Sluggish Ventures, mentioned on X that his agency makes use of NotebookLM as an alternative of a CRM.
Martin beforehand advised VentureBeat that her crew noticed many customers start sharing notebooks with others, making some notebooks the repository of knowledge round firm insurance policies or undertaking analysis.
