Google is expanding the range of functions of its AI notebook NotebookLM, with which researchers can collect large amounts of data and interrogate them using a chatbot. In addition to the free version, which only requires a Google account, there will also be a Plus version of the service in the future NotebookLM Plus Call. It is marketed by Google’s cloud subsidiary and is part of Google Workspace or Google Workspace for education. This should offer significantly more options for power users, even though NotebookLM is already quite powerful in the free version. Google has also introduced a new tool for companies that will give them access to AI agents and AI-supported searches. it is called agentspace And initially available in “Early Access” upon request.
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What can NotebookLM Plus do better
NotebookLM Plus offers some new features that will not be available to normal users. This means that five times more audio overviews can be created than the popular (and surprisingly high quality) overview podcast. The number of notebooks, as Google calls the individual research projects, questions and sources in each notebook, has also increased fivefold. Finally, you can further influence the style and length of answers and create shared notebooks for your team including analytics data. There have also been improvements in data protection and security, the extent of which could not be determined initially – Google is not already using data uploaded to NotebookLM to train its models.
With the free version of NotebookLM you can currently create 100 notebooks with up to 50 sources – each of which can contain up to 500,000 words. You can also generate up to 50 chat questions and 3 audio observations per day. With NotebookLM Plus there are now 500 notebooks, each with 300 sources as well as 500 chat queries and 20 audio observations per day. NotebookLM Plus is designed for workplace– And scope for education-Clients are not marketed as an additional product, but rather are part of the Gemini add-on, which costs Google starting at $20 per user per month. Plus offer can be used within Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Business, Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium.
AgentSpace brings AI agents into the company
AgentSpace is Google’s new “enterprise-specific, multimodal search agent”. The company writes that it aims to serve as a “common, central source of information for the entire company” through Google Cloud. The idea is that different departments of the company have easy access to existing company information – including analysts who are able to identify new industry trends, developers who can more quickly find errors in existing code, and Marketing experts who are allowed to generate in-depth information from “Performance Analysts” using AgentSpaces.
Later, a visual low-code tool will be added to create your own “expert agents” that even non-developers can use. The search function must have “Google quality” and the data searched must always remain with the company. There are also connectors for various external tools, including Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and Box. Google shows an overview of use cases in many videosThe first users include Nokia and Deloitte Consulting. Google Joint AgentPress with NotebookLM Plus for Enterprise, available through Google Cloud.
More New AI Features from Google Cloud
Google last had it in November Expanded its AI offering into the workplaceGoogle Cloud’s Office package with Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail was first offered access to Google’s Gemini through a side panel in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean — and now only Not in English. We also got the video generator Vids, whose main purpose is to create explainer, presentation and marketing videos. wide availability,
Customers with subscriptions such as Workspace Business, Enterprise, Education and Gemini as an add-on have since been able to create short films that use royalty-free stock images or can be accessed directly from Google Drive and Google Photos There are — including “professional-sounding” AI voiceover voices, according to Google. Gemini suggests the right scripts to users and aims to help them look more professional in front of the camera. Vids includes its own “video studio” in the browser.
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