Google introduces NotebookLM for enterprises

In October, Google began testing a version NotebookLMa viral AI note taking and research software aimed at businesses. Now the company is bringing NotebookLM to the enterprise, complete with job-based security and privacy features.

Dubbed NotebookLM Plus by Google, NotebookLM for businesses offers the same experience as the consumer version, but with additional controls for access and data management. Employees can upload data and files to create notebooks, podcast-like audio summaries (called Audio Reviews), and more, and search and share these projects with organizational members.

Additional benefits include five times more podcast-like audio summaries, notebooks, and data sources per notebook; the ability to customize the style and tone of notebook responses generated by artificial intelligence; and shared notebooks with usage analytics.

NotebookLM for enterprises is part of Agentspace, Google Cloud’s new AI-powered platform.agents.” It launches today in early access.

“Millions of users have used NotebookLM to make sense of complex data,” Raj Pai, vice president of Cloud AI at Google, said in a press briefing. “And with the Agentspace integration, we bring these popular capabilities to our customers, meet their compliance security and privacy requirements, and we connect them to enterprise data and applications.”

In Agentspace, NotebookLM lives alongside agents that can analyze documents and emails, translate files, and fetch data from third-party repositories. Google says users can launch and search for agents from a single interface, and soon they’ll be able to create custom agents using a low-code tool.

For business, school, university, and enterprise NotebookLM users who don’t want to sign up for Agentspace, NotebookLM Plus is also available on Google Workspace (Gemini plan for Workspace). Alternatively, enterprise users can purchase NotebookLM Plus separately through Google Cloud.

Starting early next year, NotebookLM Plus will also come to individual users who subscribe to Google for $20 a month. Google One AI Premium plan.

NotebookLM is one of Google’s most popular AI-powered products in recent memory.

Months after that to turn onNotebookLM has become the “it” thing in social media due to its audio-generation feature, which creates real-sounding, back-and-forth dialogue between two synthetic podcast hosts from a source video or audio file, URL, or document.

NotebookLM has a podcast-like audio generator since has been cloned many times and there are key leaders behind the application left company too. But Google keeps updating NotebookLM with new functionality.

On Friday, for example, NotebookLM got a redesign that reorganized the app’s tools into three panels: a Resources panel for managing imported data, a Chat panel for discussing that information through a conversational interface, and a Studio panel that lets users create things (such as tutorials , briefing documents and audio such as podcasts) with one click.

Elsewhere in NotebookLM, a new, experimental feature allows users to “join” a podcast-like audio conversation to learn more from synthetic hosts or expand on a concept. How it works:

1. User creates a new Audio View.
2. They tap the “Interactive mode (beta)” button
3. As they listen, click Join. The host will call them.
4. The user asks a question. Hosts will respond with a personalized response based on their data source.
5. After answering, the hosts will continue their back-to-back jokes.

Google notes that the currently English-only feature won’t work with existing Audio Previews, and hosts may awkwardly pause before responding or “sometimes introduce inaccuracies.”

As always, it is up to each user to verify responses from AI-powered tools – podcast-like or not.