Google’s high-powered analysis assistant is getting its personal app, and Android customers are getting a primary look.
NotebookLM, which debuted final yr, is a free AI analysis assistant (operating on Gemini 2.0’s multimodal understanding capabilities) that helps you higher perceive any matter. You may give it a variety of knowledge sources, together with PDF information, hyperlinks to articles, YouTube video hyperlinks, and Google Docs or Slides.
Providing a couple of utilization examples, Google says you are able to do issues like:
- Add lecture recordings, textbook chapters, and analysis papers to interrupt down complicated ideas into easy phrases.
- Add your individual analysis to create a elegant presentation define full with key speaking factors and supporting proof.
- Add brainstorming notes, market analysis knowledge, and competitor analysis data to determine present tendencies, discover new product concepts, and uncover hidden alternatives.
When it first launched, the software was unique to browsers, however Google has now launched it as a standalone Android app. The Apple app retailer itemizing exhibits a launch date of Might 20, however the app is accessible for obtain now for Android.
This is how the software works.
To begin, you may open up a brand new pocket book and add your information, hyperlinks, and paperwork. As soon as NotebookLM has your info, you may get a abstract again that takes info from all your sources. Every part within the abstract is cited, so you may see the place the data got here from.
You possibly can then take that abstract and have it introduced within the type that helps you be taught greatest — a written abstract, an audio abstract, or perhaps a faux podcast session the place you hear two hosts banter backwards and forwards about your matter. You possibly can even interrupt to ask questions or take the dialog in a brand new path, such as you’re a podcast visitor there with them. There’s a few-second delay whereas the hosts acknowledge you and whereas your query is answered, so it is not precisely easy, however once I tried this characteristic out for myself, it was fairly enjoyable.
Google does warn that NotebookLM is not all the time going to be right.
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