Google's NotebookLM AI Tool For Research Goes Live Globally

NotebookLM, which is Google’s new free tool for using AI to ask questions about a specific set of information, seems to be expanding on a bigger scale and gaining new support for websites and Google Slides.

While AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini are good for asking complex queries about a wide range of topics, Google’s new tool is developed to specialize in a more narrow subject of the user’s choice. Instead of knowing about almost anything users can find online, NotebookLM was created to learn from specific documents in their Google Drive.

One benefit of this is that users can give it something highly specific that they won’t find online, like a personal journal, family history, world-building ideas, or their class notes. The company has assured that anything users add to their notebooks will remain private to them and will not be used to train future AI models.

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Google Is Rolling Out NotebookLM To Over 180 Regions

Google seems to have realized the potential of NotebookLM, and hence it is expanding the AI-backed tool to more than 180 regions. The app’s UI will be available in more than 100 languages, but the tool will only be able to understand sources and carry conversations in 38 languages.

Besides, Google has also showcased some new features for the project, which will start rolling out in the coming days. In addition to existing support for training NotebookLM on Google Docs, text, and PDFs, users will soon be able to add websites to their notebooks as well as include information from Google Slides.

When adding the tool to a website, it saves the page as it exists at that moment, preventing details from being lost if a site gets taken down. With the help of Gemini 1.5 Pro, the tool is also able to competently answer questions about images and diagrams, not just text.

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NotebookLM Adds Handy New Feature

No matter where NotebookLM gains its info from, Google has adjusted the responses to include in-line citations of where it gets its information. Considering one of the core use cases is asking for factual questions about lengthy documents, this citation will come in handy for research. From a citation, users can easily jump into the source document to continue reading.

Moreover, to help users get a hold of everything in their notebook, NotebookLM is adding a handy new “Notebook Guide” feature. This feature will allow users to generate useful overviews including “Briefing Docs,” “FAQ,” and a “Study Guide.”