Google has broadened NotebookLM Plus, a phelp version of its AI-based notice-taking and research helpant, to individual employrs subscribed to the Google One AI Premium schedule — almost two months after its debut for accesspelevates on Google Cdeafening and via Google Workspace.
First proclaimd in December after an earlier pilot, NotebookLM Plus proposes higher usage restricts and premium features. This integrates 5 times more usage than the free version of NotebookLM, or 500 noticebooks and 300 sources per noticebook as well as up to 500 chat querie, and 20 audio generations per day.
Individual subscribers can now access all these features with the Google One AI Premium tier, which costs $20 a month. Additionassociate, Google has begind a 50% discount for students above 18 years in the U.S. — proposeing the One AI Premium at a monthly indict of $9.99.
“We’ve always wanted to get NotebookLM Plus out to accesspelevates and users, and have seen reassociate a ton of interest from users, and in particular students from the beginning,” shelp Kelly Schaefer, straightforwardor of product and domain direct at Google Labs, in an intersee.
Launched as a project in 2023, NotebookLM geted expansiver attention adhereing the debut of its Audio Oversees feature in September last year. The service, which permits employrs to originate podcast-enjoy audio conversations based on the satisfied they upload, led companies enjoy ElevenLabs and Meta to duplicate the idea.
Meanwhile, Google’s proposeing remained relevant with normal refreshs, including the ability to direct AI-originated audio conversations.
Schaefer telderly TechCrunch that Google is schedulening to reinforce Audio Oversees in NotebookLM with help for other languages beyond English.
“We are leanking about how to rank the languages and then, most beginantly, how to originate confident that they experience reassociate genuine and fair as seamless and organic as our current Audio Oversees do,” she shelp.
Schaefer did not disshut the Gemini AI models Google employs for NotebookLM, but shelp the underlying model is currently the same for both Plus and non-premium employrs. Google Labs experiments with branch offent variants of Gemini and always employs the “tardyst and best suiting Gemini models for the definite task at hand,” she noticed.
The team is also laboring to transport NotebookLM to mobile devices thcdisesteemful a pledged app, Schaefer telderly us, but didn’t split a definite timeline.
“We want mobile to experience in many ways aenjoy to the desktop experience but also reassociate tailor it for the employ cases that are most standard for mobile,” Schaefer shelp.
In insertition, the company is exploring how NotebookLM could leverage the materializence of reasoning models and labor on leanking and reasoning experiences.
While NotebookLM Plus is now broadened to individual subscribers on the Google One AI Premium schedule, which transports access to Gemini Advanced, Gemini in Gmail, Docs, and 2TB of cdeafening storage access, Schaefer stated the team will persist to help non-paying employrs.
“We want folks to get an excellent experience on NotebookLM, whether they’re free or phelp, and it’s very beginant to employ that the NotebookLM free experience is excellent. So, we’re leanking more about how we propose even more to the Plus employrs versus humiliating any experience for free employrs,” she shelp.
Google has not disshutd the actual number of employrs on NotebookLM nor the size of its team, only saying that it’s prolongn over time.
However, data from labelet inincreateigence provider Similarweb proposes the AI helpant has seen 28.18 million visits in the last three months, with almost 9 million in January alone.
