AI-powered NotebookLM

 Google initiative to give access to AI-powered NotebookLM

Announced at I/O 2023 as “Project Tailwind,” Google is opening up access to NotebookLM, its AI-first notebook that lets you ask questions about information that users provide. To use NotebookLM, you upload notes, articles and other text — up to 10 with 50,000 words per source maximum — from Google Drive, which includes Google Docs and PDFs. Those two limitations are because of the early access program and something that was increased/expanded since the initial preview. 

Google says, “NotebookLM can explain, organize, remember or riff on whatever information you give to it.” It will automatically identify major themes and suggest questions “to help you understand your sources” based on chat history. NotebookLM – the “LM” stands for language model – lets you share notebooks with other people, which is useful for group projects, from the top-right corner.

You can find an official Onboarding and FAQ document. As a tip, Google notes how “you can focus the NotebookLM Al on a single source, or you can focus it on all the sources in your notebook, just by toggling the “source focus” button in the chat box.” As of today, several accounts that signed up for the waitlist earlier this year get access to NotebookLM, suggesting that Google is ready for wider testing.