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Google’s AI note-taking app is now out there to all customers in america who’re not less than 18 years previous, the corporate announced on Friday. The experimental app can also be getting a slew of recent options and beginning to use Gemini Professional, Google’s new giant language mannequin, to “assist with doc understanding and reasoning.”
When you add paperwork to NotebookLM, the app can mechanically generate summaries and recommend follow-up questions in regards to 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 manage their curated notes into structured writing initiatives. As an example, you possibly can choose a set of notes and ask NotebookLM to create one thing new, reminiscent of a script define, e mail e-newsletter or a draft of a advertising plan.
Plus, NotebookLM can now recommend actions primarily based on no matter you’re at the moment doing. As an example, say you’ve gotten chosen a passage whereas studying a supply. NotebookLM will mechanically provide to summarize the textual content that you’ve got chosen into a brand new notice or provide help to 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 recommend associated concepts out of your sources primarily based on what you’ve gotten written thus far.
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The tech big 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 mentioned they needed the flexibility to save lots of their exchanges with NotebookLM as notes.
Google can also be making a number of different small tweaks to the product. Now while you add a notice, NotebookLM will create an unbiased new notice as a substitute of including to a single notepad. And while 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 solely on notetaking, now you can conceal the supply. And if you wish to focus NotebookLM’s AI on chosen sources, you possibly can chat with a selected set of sources in your pocket book by choosing 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 also 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.
At the moment’s announcement comes round 5 months after the tech big made NotebookLM out there to a choose few. Google first demoed its “AI pocket book for everybody” throughout Google I/O earlier this 12 months as Undertaking Tailwind earlier than renaming it to NotebookLM. On the time, Google mentioned the app could possibly be utilized by college students as a method to manage their lecture notes and different paperwork when finishing coursework.
NotebookLM is promising, however as TechCrunch’s Devin Coldeway beforehand famous, let’s hope the product doesn’t find yourself within the Google Graveyard like so most of the tech big’s different experimental initiatives.