Google has just announced an advanced version of NotebookLM called “NotebookLM Plus”.
This version is enriched with security and confidentiality features specifically adapted to professional environments, underlines Google.
A more secure version of NotebookLM
“Downloaded files, queries and model responses from NotebookLM Plus under Gemini for Workspace are neither used for training models nor reviewed by third parties,” explains the publisher’s press release. “Customer data remains their sole property, and no files, requests or responses are shared outside of their organization’s trusted perimeter. »
NotebookLM Plus also allows fine-grained access management. “Users can only download sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. And they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions for each of them.”
When the “Plus” offer is linked to Google’s collaborative suite (Workspace), notebooks can only be shared within a company.
NotebookLM Plus can also be purchased separately on Google Cloud and will be included in the Google One AI Premium subscription in early 2025.
What is NotebookLM?
For the record, NotebookLM is a tool infused with Generative Artificial Intelligence which allows you to upload sources in various formats (PDF, video, web page URL link, etc.) then to communicate with them to make summaries or query specific points.
Each response element links to the exact reference of one of the uploaded documents. The answers can then be “pinned” in notes to consult them later or share them (hence the name of the product “Notebook”).
Another feature with a guaranteed “wow” effect generates a podcast, which discusses the content of the documents, in the form of a “fireside chat” – an “Audio Overview”.
The tool has already attracted “millions of users”, says Google.
An enriched and more muscular “Plus” version
Continuity of security and access rights, NotebookLM Plus comes with notebooks shared by team.
This enterprise version is also more “muscular”, with the availability of five times more audio summaries, notes and sources per note. As for the answers, the new version allows you to personalize both the tone and the conciseness.
The release of NotebookLM Plus was also an opportunity for Google to thoroughly review the interface for all users (see screenshot above) with the aim of “simplifying the transition between management, reading and production of content from your sources, all in one place.”
Finally, NotebookLM – free and paid – now allows you to enter the audio conversation and question the two “hosts”, thus making the podcast interactive (a feature still in beta, however).
Questioned by LeMagIT, Google France assures that free NotebookLM “will continue to exist for everyone”.
