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In October, Google began piloting a version of NotebookLM, its widely used AI-based note-taking and search app aimed at businesses. Now, the company is bringing NotebookLM to the enterprise, with business-focused security and privacy features.
NotebookLM for Enterprise — which Google calls NotebookLM Plus — 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 overviews”), and more, search across these projects, and share them with members of the organization.
Additional features include five times more audio summaries, notebooks, and podcast-like data sources for each notebook; the ability to customize the style and tone of AI-generated notebook responses; and shared team notebooks with usage analytics.
NotebookLM for Enterprise is part of Agentspace, Google Cloud’s new platform for AI-enabled “agents.” It launches today in early access.
“Millions of users have used NotebookLM to understand complex information,” Raj Pai, vice president of Cloud AI at Google, said during a press conference. “With the Agentspace integration, we are delivering these popular capabilities to our customers, meeting their security and privacy compliance requirements – and connecting them to enterprise data and applications.”
In Agentspace, NotebookLM lives alongside agents that can parse documents and emails, translate files, and fetch data from third-party repositories. 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, Google says.
For business, school, university, and enterprise NotebookLM users who prefer not to subscribe to Agentspace, NotebookLM Plus is also available in Google Workspace. Alternatively, enterprise users can purchase NotebookLM Plus separately through Google Cloud.
Starting early next year, NotebookLM Plus will also come to individual users on the $20-per-month Google One AI Premium plan.
NotebookLM is one of Google’s most popular AI-powered products in recent memory.
Months after its launch, NotebookLM became the focus of social media attention for its audio generation feature, which creates realistic back-and-forth dialogue between synthetic podcast hosts from a source video or audio file, URL or document.
NotebookLM’s podcast-like audio generator has since been cloned several times, and key leaders behind the app have also left the company. But Google continues to update NotebookLM with new functions.
For example, NotebookLM on Friday got a redesign that reorganizes the app’s tools across three panels: a Resources panel for managing imported information, a Chat panel for discussing that information through a chat interface, and a Studio panel that lets users create things (for example, study guides, summary documents, and podcast-like audio files) with just one click.
Elsewhere in NotebookLM, a new experimental feature allows users to “join” the conversation in a podcast-like voice by asking synthetic hosts for more details or expansion on a concept. Here’s how it works:
- The user creates a new audio overview.
- They click on the “Interactive Mode (Experimental)” button.
- While listening, tap Join. The host will contact them.
- A user asks a question. Hosts will respond with a customized answer based on their data sources.
- After answering, the hosts will resume their back-and-forth banter.
Google notes that the feature, which is only available in English at the moment, will not work with existing audio overviews, and that hosts may pause awkwardly before responding or “sometimes provide inaccurate information.”
As always, any user has to validate answers from AI-powered tools, whether they resemble a podcast or not.
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