Google’s NotebookLM gets many new features and was expand to more than 200 countries and regions. The AI-power research and writing assistant was initially introduce in 2023 in Google I/O event as Project Tailwind and was later roll out to a limited number of users in the US.
Now, the platform is available to users in India and other countries with features such as web URLs and Google Slides as sources, inline citations, and more.
It is also power by the Gemini 1.5 Pro AI model.
New Features of Google NotebookLM
After the integration with Gemini 1.5 Pro, the AI model that powers Gemini Advanced, NotebookLM now has multimodal capabilities.
Means, users can add pictures, charts, and diagrams in sources and the platform will answer questions about them.
As it could only read and analyse the text.
Another useful new feature is the inclusion of Google Slides and website URLs as sources.
With this, users can upload a link to a website or a Google Slides file and have the AI chatbot organise and answer questions on it.
The Gemini 1.5 Pro model is again useful here as it lets the chatbot go through the slides.
Also you can upload sources from Google Drive, PDF files, Text files, and copied text.
This platform now shows inline citations for its generated responses.
Hovering over the citation will open the supporting passage from the source for easy fact-checking.
You can also click the passage to dive deeper into the original text.
Also, the NotebookLM also has a deeper level of understanding of the sources, and it can generate frequently asked questions (FAQs), briefing documents, and study guides when prompted.
How to Use Google NotebookLM?
Follow These Steps :
- Go to the Google NotebookLM website.
- Tap on Try NotebookLM.
- Look for the Sources icon on the left margin.
- There should be a plus icon next to it.
- Click it.
- Choose your prefer mode of uploading source.
- Choose the file or URL you want to use.
- Now, you can type your query in the text field at the bottom.
