Google has expanded Notebooklm Plus, an AI -based memo and a paid version of the research assistant to individual users who joined the Google One AI Premium Plan.
Notebooklm Plus was first announced in December after the initial pilot. This includes free versions of Notebooklm, 500 laptops and 300 sources per notebook, up to 500 chat queries and five times more than 20 audio generations per day.
Individual subscribers can now access all these features using a $ 20 Google One AI Premium Tier. Google also offers 50% discounts to students for more than 18 years in the United States, offering AI premiums at a monthly fee of $ 9.99 per month.
Kelly Schaefer, the product and domain officer of Google Labs, said, “We always wanted to get notebook plus from notebook plus and companies and consumers, and we had a lot of interest from consumers, especially from students. In the interview.
Notebooklm, which was released in 2023 as a project, attracted more attention after debuting the audio outline function in September last year. Based on the content uploaded by users, this service, which allows you to create audio conversations such as podcasts, has copied ideas by leading companies such as Elevenlabs and META.
On the other hand, Google’s offering was related to regular updates, including the ability to guide the AI production audio conversation.
Schaefer told Techcrunch that Google plans to improve the audio overview of NotebookLM by supporting other languages other than English.
“We are thinking about how to prioritize language, and most importantly, we are thinking about how to feel true, perfect and natural, like the current audio outline,” she said.
Schaefer says Google has not released the Gemini AI model used in Notebooklm, but the basic model is the same for both Plus and non -premium users. Google Labs experiments with a variety of gemini and always uses the “Gemini model that is the latest and best for specific tasks.”
The team is also trying to bring a laptop to a mobile device through a dedicated app, Schaefer said that we did not share a specific timeline for us.
Schaefer said, “We want mobile to feel in various ways similar to desktop experiences, but we want to adjust them according to the most common use cases on mobile.
In addition, the company explores how laptops can use the emergence of reasoning models and how to use thinking and reasoning experiences.
Notebooklm Plus is now expanded to an individual subscriber of Google One AI Premium Plan, and Schaefer, who can access Gemini Advanced, Gemini, DOCS and 2TB of 2TB, will continue to support non -payment users. .
“We want people to get a great experience in Notebooklm, regardless of whether they are free or paying, and it is very important to use that the laptop is excellent. So we are thinking more about providing more to plus users and how to reduce our experiences with free users. ”
Google says that Notebooklm has not disclosed the actual number of users and the size of the team, and it grows over time.
However, according to the data from the Market Intelligence provider, the AI assistant has seen nearly 9 million visitors in January in the last three months.
