NotebookLM goes global with Slides support and better ways to fact-check

Jun 06, 2024

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Steven Johnson

Editorial Director, Google Labs

Raiza Martin

Product Manager, Google Labs

Last summer, we introduced NotebookLM, an AI-powered probe and penning assistant. Today, we’re excited to stock that we’re bringing an upgraded mentation of NotebookLM — present utilizing Gemini 1.5 Pro — to implicit 200 countries and territories astir the world.

Our extremity from the opening with NotebookLM has been to make a instrumentality to assistance you recognize and research analyzable material, marque caller connections from information, and get to your archetypal draught faster. You tin upload sources — your probe notes, interrogation transcripts, firm documents — and instantly NotebookLM becomes an adept successful the worldly that matters astir to you. Today’s upgrade introduces respective caller features:

• NotebookLM present supports Google Slides and web URLs arsenic sources, on with Google Docs, PDFs and substance files.
• Inline citations present instrumentality you straight to supporting passages successful your sources, truthful you tin easy fact-check the AI effect oregon dive deeper successful the archetypal text.
• Notebook usher gives you a high-level knowing of your sources by converting them into utile formats similar FAQs, Briefing Docs oregon Study Guides.

Thanks to Gemini 1.5 Pro’s autochthonal multimodal capabilities, you tin present inquire questions astir images, charts and diagrams successful your sources. NotebookLM volition adjacent see citations to images arsenic supporting grounds erstwhile relevant.

Case studies from existent users

We’ve been amazed by the scope of uses that radical are uncovering for NotebookLM. Because the merchandise was developed successful adjacent concern with authors, students and educators, we’ve seen galore aboriginal adopters integrate it into probe and penning workflows. Best-selling writer Walter Isaacson has been moving with NotebookLM to analyse Marie Curie's journals for probe connected his adjacent book. We’ve seen akin enthusiasm from documentary and podcast researchers who request to sift done analyzable archives to make scripts oregon communicative ideas. But the operation of Gemini 1.5 Pro’s precocious reasoning abilities and NotebookLM’s source-grounding architecture has unlocked galore different imaginable applications:

• In section governance, Palm Bay nonmigratory Thomas Gaume created a hyperlocal newsletter, aggregating metropolis ordinances, onshore usage data, zoning codes and assembly gathering minutes. NotebookLM empowered him to beryllium a "one-person newsroom and publisher."
• NotebookLM’s quality to summarize and accommodate interrogation transcripts is helping users place patterns and themes successful earthy transcripts, redeeming hours of manual analysis. For example, advisor Victor Adefuye uses NotebookLM to analyse income telephone transcripts for targeted grooming and coaching.
• Nonprofits person deployed NotebookLM to assistance them place needs successful underserved communities and signifier accusation for assistance proposals.

We’ve besides noticed immoderate unexpected and playful usage cases with the assistance of our 14,000 subordinate Discord community, including novelists and fan-fiction authors managing analyzable storylines utilizing NotebookLM, and our favorite: role-playing crippled enthusiasts consulting elaborate descriptions of phantasy worlds for games similar Dungeons and Dragons.

Getting started

If you’re caller to NotebookLM, getting started is easy: When you archetypal entree NotebookLM, you’ll make a notebook and upload documents for a circumstantial task oregon deliverable. At that constituent you tin read, instrumentality notes, inquire questions, signifier your ideas, oregon inquire NotebookLM to make automatic overviews of each your sources — a survey guide, for example, oregon a array of contents. And with NotebookLM, the sources you upload are not utilized to bid the model.

Whether it’s being utilized to physique imaginary worlds, constitute bestselling biographies, oregon assistance salespeople find caller customers, NotebookLM has fixed U.S. users almighty tools for making connections and generating insights retired of ample collections of documents. We can’t hold to spot what the remainder of the satellite does with it.