Google’s recently launched AI-powered tool, Notebook LM, has received a fresh upgrade to enhance research and writing.
The American multinational organization announced that the tool is getting a big upgrade and expanding to over 200 countries and territories around the world.
“Last summer, we introduced NotebookLM, an AI-powered research and writing assistant. Today, we’re excited to share that we’re bringing an upgraded version of NotebookLM — now using Gemini 1.5 Pro — to over 200 countries and territories around the world,” Google noted in a publication made available to Naija News on Thursday.
It added: “Our goal from the beginning with NotebookLM has been to create a tool to help you understand and explore complex material, make new connections from information, and get to your first draft faster. You can upload sources your research notes, interview transcripts, and corporate documents and instantly NotebookLM becomes an expert in the material that matters most to you.” 
The latest upgrade, according to Google, introduces several new features which include:
- NotebookLM now supports Google Slides and web URLs as sources, along with Google Docs, PDFs and text files.
- Inline citations now take you directly to supporting passages in your sources, so you can easily fact-check the AI response or dive deeper into the original text.
- Notebook guide gives you a high-level understanding of your sources by converting them into useful formats like FAQs, Briefing Docs or Study Guides.
- Thanks to Gemini 1.5 Pro’s native multimodal capabilities, you can now ask questions about images, charts and diagrams in your sources. NotebookLM will even include citations to images as supporting evidence when relevant.
- With Gemini 1.5 Pro’s native multimodal capabilities, NotebookLM can now understand and cite your questions about images, charts and diagrams in your sources.
Case Studies From Real Users
Google expressed its astonishment at the diverse range of ways in which people have utilized NotebookLM.
It said due to its close collaboration with authors, students, and educators during development, it has witnessed numerous early adopters seamlessly incorporating it into their research and writing processes.
Renowned author, Walter Isaacson, for instance, has employed NotebookLM to meticulously examine Marie Curie’s journals for his upcoming book.
Similarly, documentary and podcast researchers have exhibited the same level of enthusiasm as they navigate intricate archives to generate scripts or brainstorm story ideas.
However, the integration of Gemini 1.5 Pro’s advanced reasoning capabilities with NotebookLM’s source-grounding architecture has unveiled numerous other potential applications.
For instance, Palm Bay resident Thomas Gaume has successfully created a hyperlocal newsletter by aggregating city ordinances, land use data, zoning codes, and council meeting minutes.
NotebookLM empowered him to be a “one-person newsroom and publisher.”
NotebookLM’s ability to summarize and adapt interview transcripts helps users identify patterns and themes in raw transcripts, saving hours of manual analysis.
For example, consultant Victor Adefuye uses NotebookLM to analyze sales call transcripts for targeted training and coaching.
Nonprofits have deployed NotebookLM to help them identify needs in underserved communities and organize information for grant proposals.
We’ve also noticed some unexpected and playful use cases with the help of our 14,000-member Discord community, including novelists and fan-fiction authors managing complex storylines using NotebookLM, and our favourite: role-playing game enthusiasts consulting detailed descriptions of fantasy worlds for games like Dungeons and Dragons.
Getting Started With NotebookLM
If you’re new to NotebookLM, getting started is easy: When you first access NotebookLM, you’ll create a notebook and upload documents for a specific project or deliverable.
At that point, you can read, take notes, ask questions, organize your ideas, or ask NotebookLM to create automatic overviews of all your sources a study guide, for example, or a table of contents.
With NotebookLM, the sources you upload are not used to train the model.
Whether it’s being used to build imaginary worlds, write bestselling biographies, or help salespeople find new customers, NotebookLM has given U.S. users powerful tools for making connections and generating insights out of large collections of documents.
“We can’t wait to see what the rest of the world does with it,” Google expressed.
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