Google’s AI-assisted NotebookLM note-taking app is now open to customers within the US

Google’s AI note-taking app is now out there to all customers in the US who’re at the very least 18 years previous, the corporate announced on Friday. The experimental app can be getting a slew of recent options and beginning to use Gemini Pro, Google’s new giant language mannequin, to “help with document understanding and reasoning.”

When you add paperwork to NotebookLM, the app can mechanically generate summaries and counsel follow-up questions concerning the content material within the paperwork. Not like generic chatbots that draw on giant quantities of unrelated info, NotebookLM solely focuses on the paperwork that it’s fed.

Now, Google is including new capabilities to the product to transcend producing summaries and suggesting questions.

NotebookLM now has new instruments designed to assist customers set up their curated notes into structured writing tasks. As an example, you’ll be able to choose a set of notes and ask NotebookLM to create one thing new, reminiscent of a script define, electronic mail publication or a draft of a advertising and marketing plan.

Plus, NotebookLM can now counsel actions primarily based on no matter you’re at present doing. As an example, say you may have chosen a passage whereas studying a supply. NotebookLM will mechanically provide to summarize the textual content that you’ve chosen into a brand new notice or enable you perceive the content material of the textual content. In one other occasion, say you’re writing a notice. NotebookLM will provide to refine your prose or counsel associated concepts out of your sources primarily based on what you may have written to date.

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The tech large is including a brand new noteboard area to allow you to simply pin quotes from the chat or your personal written notes. Google says the brand new area was a key request from customers who stated they needed the power to avoid wasting their exchanges with NotebookLM as notes.

Google can be making just a few different small tweaks to the product. Now once you add a notice, NotebookLM will create an impartial new notice as a substitute of including to a single notepad. And once you click on on the quotation quantity in a chat response or a saved notice, you’ll now instantly be taken to the unique quote within the supply.

If you wish to focus completely on notetaking, now you can conceal the supply. And if you wish to focus NotebookLM’s AI on chosen sources, you’ll be able to chat with a selected set of sources in your pocket book by deciding on them individually within the supply sidebar. Plus, Google is including PDF help and copied textual content help, which suggests now you can copy and paste textual content to create a brand new supply and edit the title as soon as it’s created.

Along with the brand new options, Google can be increasing the product’s limitations, as notebooks can now embody as much as 20 sources, whereas a supply can now embody as much as 200,000 phrases.

In the present day’s announcement comes round 5 months after the tech large made NotebookLM available to a select few. Google first demoed its “AI notebook for everyone” throughout Google I/O earlier this 12 months as Venture Tailwind earlier than renaming it to NotebookLM. On the time, Google stated the app may very well be utilized by college students as a option to set up their lecture notes and different paperwork when finishing coursework.

NotebookLM is promising, however as TechCrunch’s Devin Coldeway previously noted, let’s hope the product doesn’t find yourself within the Google Graveyard like so most of the tech large’s different experimental tasks.