The global rollout of NotebookLM is expected to compete with numerous platforms that offer similar GenAI tools. Unlike most of these platforms that charge for their services, Google is offering this service for free. The company has also added features like inline citations and Notebook Guide, which helps convert content into various formats. Google has assured that the data users upload on NotebookLM is not used to train its algorithms, ensuring privacy.
Key takeaways:
- Google is expanding its AI-powered note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, to over 200 new countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, and the U.K.
- The platform has been upgraded with new features and languages, supporting 108 languages and allowing users to generate summaries and ask questions based on their documents.
- NotebookLM can source content from Google Slides and web URLs, in addition to Google Docs, PDFs and text files, and Google has added inline citations and a Notebook Guide feature.
- Google does not use any of the data users upload on NotebookLM to train its algorithms, ensuring user data privacy.