In the US, NotebookLM, Google’s AI-powered note-taking software, is now publicly accessible. Additionally, the company says that it is “starting” to use Google’s Gemini Pro AI model “to help with document understanding and reasoning” in addition to receiving numerous additional capabilities.
Already, NotebookLM can summarize papers you load into the program, identify important points, and even respond to inquiries regarding the origins of the notes you take. However, Google is now including an option to convert your notes into other kinds of documents. Once all of your notes have been selected, NotebookLM will automatically recommend formats, such as an outline or study guide. Google does point out that you may also instruct NotebookLM to convert your notes into another format, such as an email, newsletter, screenplay outline, and more.
Furthermore, NotebookLM will soon begin to recommend actions depending on your activities within the app. For instance, according to Google, NotebookLM may “offer tools to polish or refine your prose or suggest related ideas from your sources based on what you’ve just written” as you’re composing a note. Additional useful features that will be added to the app include the ability to share your notes with others, save insightful replies from NotebookLM as notes, and direct NotebookLM’s AI to specific sources when speaking with it.
Additionally, Google is extending a few of NotebookLM’s restrictions. Now, you can have up to 20 sources with a combined word count of 200,000 in your notebook. Before making NotebookLM (formerly known as “Project Tailwind”) available to a limited number of testers, Google originally presented it at its I/O conference in May. The software is now accessible to all US users who are 18 years of age or older because of its expansion, which happened a few days after Google unveiled Gemini, its rival to the GPT-4.
