Google launches NotebookLM Business to make enterprise AI audio, text

Google will quickly provide a paid model of its AI analysis device NotebookLM, particularly focusing on companies. 

NotebookLM Enterprise can have “enhanced options for companies, universities, and organizations.” For now, entry to NotebookLM Enterprise is thru a pilot program for early entry to its options, coaching and e-mail help. 

Google informed VentureBeat in an e-mail that members within the NotebookLM Enterprise pilot “will achieve a big benefit with enhanced capabilities designed to spice up productiveness and collaboration.” These capabilities embody increased utilization limits and new options similar to customization and sharing notebooks with group members. The corporate mentioned these options may unlock new use instances for companies utilizing the device.

“We’ve seen this early function streamline onboarding, shared understanding of advanced tasks, and constructing a centralized repository of your group’s collective intelligence all inside a collaborative pocket book atmosphere,” a spokesperson mentioned. 

One other function that will likely be a part of NotebookLM Enterprise is Audio Overview, which lets customers create a narrated examine information.

Google mentioned the paid model will proceed to have sturdy information privateness and safety. 

NotebookLM, constructed with Gemini 1.5, lets individuals add supply materials to “notebooks” to collect data and ask the Gemini chatbot questions concerning the analysis. First introduced in July final yr, NotebookLM grew to become typically obtainable in December. 

Google will even take away the “experimental” tag on the device. 

NotebookLM product supervisor Raiza Martin beforehand informed VentureBeat that the group noticed many alternative makes use of for the platform, together with some for enterprises. Whereas NotebookLM was by no means meant for a selected viewers, Martin mentioned many researchers and college students embraced the product. Many companies have additionally begun utilizing NotebookLM as a repository of knowledge for groups. 

Google will announce basic availability and pricing for NotebookLM Enterprise later this yr. 

Extra management over audio 

Together with asserting NotebookLM Enterprise, Google up to date the Audio Overview function of NotebookLM. Audio Overview lets individuals generate podcasts about their analysis. Google characterised Audio Overview as a spoken analysis or examine information reasonably than a podcast. Nevertheless, its first model featured two voices (one male, one feminine) conversing concerning the data within the pocket book, reminding a lot of podcasts. 

Audio Overview proved fashionable amongst some customers, with many posting their generated audio on social media. Martin had beforehand promised extra controls over Audio Overview and mentioned the corporate’s analysis confirmed conversations helped individuals retain extra data.

Customers can now information extra of the dialog of Audio Overview, together with prompting the mannequin to give attention to particular matters or ranges of experience. Audio Overviews will even proceed to play whereas customers question their sources or ask questions with its chat function. 

I acquired to discover the up to date capabilities of Audio Overviews early. In a pocket book with sources round AI Orchestration, I informed it to give attention to the definition of orchestration and the way totally different frameworks like LangChain work. The ultimate product did speak about AI orchestration primarily based on the totally different weblog posts and YouTube movies I had uploaded. The 2 “hosts,” nonetheless, spoke about frameworks as if LangChain was the one orchestration framework on the market. This could be a misunderstanding of my immediate the place I particularly named LangChain as a result of the supply paperwork undoubtedly speak about obtainable instruments. 

Google does level out that Audio Overviews “are generated discussions and aren’t a complete or goal view of a subject.” It solely takes under consideration data discovered within the uploaded supply supplies. 

Open NotebookLM, an open-source competitor to NotebookLM, launched final month and included an audio recap perform. Whereas Open NotebookLM doesn’t have the identical fact-checking capabilities as NotebookLM, it represents a shift within the ease of deploying advanced AI-driven platforms.