In October, Google began piloting a version of NotebookLM, its viral AI note-taking and research app geared toward businesses. Now the corporate is bringing NotebookLM to the enterprise, complete with work-focused security and privacy features.
NotebookLM for business – called NotebookLM Plus by Google – offers the identical experience as the patron version, but with additional controls for access and data management. Employees can upload data and files to create notebooks, podcast-like audio summaries (called audio summaries), and more, and search and share these projects with organization members.
Additional advantages include five times more podcast-like audio summaries, notebooks, and data sources per notebook; the flexibility to customize the style and tone of AI-generated notebook responses; and shared team notebooks with usage analytics.
NotebookLM for Enterprise is an element of Agentspace, Google Cloud's latest platform for AI-powered “agents.” It starts in Early Access today.
“Millions of users have used NotebookLM to know complex information,” said Raj Pai, vp of Cloud AI at Google, during a press conference. “And with the Agentspace integration, we’re bringing these popular capabilities to our customers, meeting their compliance security and privacy needs – and connecting them to enterprise data and applications.”
In Agentspace, NotebookLM works with agents that may analyze documents and emails, translate files, and import data from third-party repositories. Users will have the opportunity to launch and seek for agents from a single interface, and shortly they may have the opportunity to create custom agents using a low-code tool, Google says.
For corporate, school, college, and company NotebookLM users preferring to not register to Agentspace, NotebookLM Plus can be available in Google Workspace (on the Gemini for Workspace plan). Alternatively, organization users should buy NotebookLM Plus individually through Google Cloud.
Starting early next 12 months, NotebookLM Plus may also be available to individual users subscribed to Google's Google One AI Premium plan for $20 per thirty days.
NotebookLM is one in all Google's hottest AI-based products in recent times.
Months after its launch, NotebookLM became the “it” thing on the earth on account of its audio generation feature, which creates a realistic-sounding back-and-forth dialogue between two synthesized podcast hosts from a source video or audio file, a URL, or a source document social media.
NotebookLM's podcast-like audio generator has since been cloned several times, and the important thing people behind the app have also left the corporate. But Google continues to update NotebookLM with latest features.
Case in point, NotebookLM received a redesign on Friday that reorganizes the app's tools into three panels: a Sources panel for managing imported information, a Chat panel for discussing that information via a conversational interface, and a Studio panel. Panel that enables users to create things (similar to study guides, briefing documents, and podcast-like audio) with a single click.
Elsewhere in NotebookLM, a brand new, experimental feature allows users to hitch the conversation in podcast-like audio by asking the synthetic presenters for more details or to expand on an idea. This is how it really works:
- A user creates a brand new audio summary.
- You tap the “Interactive Mode (Beta)” button.
- While they're listening, they tap Join. A number will visit you.
- A user asks a matter. Hosts respond with a customized response based on their data sources.
- After the reply, the hosts proceed their backwards and forwards.
Google notes that the feature, currently only available in English, doesn't work with existing audio overviews and that hosts may pause awkwardly before responding or “occasionally introduce inaccuracies.”
As all the time, it’s every user’s responsibility to fact-check the answers provided by AI-powered tools – whether podcast-like or not.
