Tech Desk 
Jun 07, 2024
Google, a tech giant, is set to launch NotebookLM, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered note-taking assistant, in over 200 new countries.
The NotebookLM is powered by Google’s multimodal LLM Gemini 1.5 Pro. Gemini 1.5 Pro allows people to use AI to create summaries and ask their queries based on their documents, transcripts, notes, and much more. NotebookLM is offered in countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, and the UK, along with 208 other countries and territories.
Moreover, the company has expanded the interface language support for the AI-assisted app to 108 languages, including Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Cantonese, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, and English.
In addition, it features sources and chats in 38 languages, such as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, and Spanish. The company provided the capability to NotebookLM to source content from Google Slides and web URLs, along with the existing support for Google Docs, PDFs and text files.
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It allows users to generate notes ask any query about the content in their documents or explore online information.
Senior Product Manager of AI at Google Labs, Raiza Martin stated that the company aimed to focus on the product’s core value before expanding integrations.
Martin stated: “Down the road, you’ll hopefully see these types of integrations.”
Martin noticed that the company didn’t utilise any of the information users uploaded on NotebookLM to train its algorithms. “In particular, we get this question a lot because users want to be able to use it with work or school documents. Your data does stay private to you,” Martin stated.
