In October, Google began testing NotebookLM, a viral AI note-taking and research app for businesses. The company is now introducing NotebookLM to enterprises with work-focused security and privacy features.
NotebookLM for enterprises (called NotebookLM Plus by Google) provides the same experience as the consumer version, but with additional access and data management controls. Employees can upload data and files to create things like notebooks and podcast-like audio summaries (called audio summaries), and then search and share these projects with organization members.
Additional benefits include audio summaries like podcasts, notebooks, and 5x more data sources per notebook. Ability to customize the style and tone of AI-generated notebook responses. Shared a team notebook with usage analytics.
NotebookLM for Enterprise is part of Agentspace, Google Cloud's new platform for AI-powered “agents.” Released in early access today.
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“Millions of users have used NotebookLM to understand complex information,” Raj Pai, Google's vice president of cloud AI, said at a press conference. “And with the Agentspace integration, we offer these popular features to our customers, meet compliance security and privacy requirements, and connect them with their corporate data and applications.”
In Agentspace, NotebookLM works alongside agents that can analyze documents and emails, translate files, and ingest data from third-party repositories. Google says users will be able to launch and search agents from a single interface, and will soon be able to build custom agents using low-code tools.
For NotebookLM users in businesses, schools, universities, and enterprises who don't want to sign up for Agentspace, NotebookLM Plus is also available in Google Workspace. Alternatively, organization users can purchase NotebookLM Plus separately through Google Cloud.
Starting early next year, NotebookLM Plus will also be available to individual users who subscribe to Google's $20/month Google One AI premium plan.
NotebookLM is one of Google's most popular AI-powered products in memory.
A few months after its launch, NotebookLM is now available for downloading source video or audio files, URLs, or documents.
NotebookLM's podcast-like audio generator has since been cloned multiple times, and the key leaders behind the app have left the company as well. However, Google continues to update NotebookLM with new features.
Case in point: NotebookLM was redesigned on Friday, reorganizing the app's tools across three panels. A 'Source' panel for managing imported information, a 'Chat' panel for discussing that information through a conversational interface, and a 'Studio' panel where users can create something (e.g. study guides, briefing documents). , podcast-like audio) in one click.
Elsewhere in NotebookLM, new experimental features allow users to “join” conversations in podcast-like audio by asking synthetic hosts for details or expanding on concepts. Here's how it works:
User creates a new audio summary. Tap the “Interactive Mode (Beta)” button. While listening, tap Join. The host calls them. User asks a question. The host returns personalized answers based on the data source. After answering, the hosts resume their interaction.
Google says the feature is currently only available in English, won't work with existing audio summaries, and may cause hosts to awkwardly pause before responding and “occasionally produce inaccurate results.” Pointed out.
As always, it is your responsibility to fact-check answers from AI-powered tools, whether they are podcast-like or not.