Google’s high-powered analysis assistant is getting its personal app, and Android customers are getting a primary look.
NotebookLM, which debuted final 12 months, is a free AI analysis assistant (operating on Gemini 2.0’s multimodal understanding capabilities) that helps you higher perceive any subject. You may give it a variety of information 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 advanced ideas into easy phrases.
- Add your personal analysis to create a elegant presentation define full with key speaking factors and supporting proof.
- Add brainstorming notes, market analysis information, and competitor analysis data to determine present traits, discover new product concepts, and uncover hidden alternatives.
When it first launched, the instrument 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 Could 20, however the app is accessible for obtain now for Android.
This is how the instrument works.
To start out, you will open up a brand new pocket book and add your information, hyperlinks, and paperwork. As soon as NotebookLM has your info, you will get a abstract again that takes info from your whole sources. Every part within the abstract is cited, so you possibly can see the place the knowledge got here from.
You may then take that abstract and have it offered within the type that helps you study greatest — a written abstract, an audio abstract, or perhaps a pretend podcast session the place you hear two hosts banter backwards and forwards about your subject. You may even interrupt to ask questions or take the dialog in a brand new course, 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 isn’t precisely easy, however once I tried this characteristic out for myself, it was fairly enjoyable.
Google does warn that NotebookLM is not at all times going to be right.
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