Google extends Notebooklm Plus to individual users
Google has expanded Notebooklm PlusFor individual users who subscribe to the Google One AI Premium Plan, the paid version of AI-based note-taking and research assistant is almost two months after its debut via Google Cloud and Google Workspace.
beginning announcement After December Previous PilotNotebooklm Plus Offer Higher usage restrictions and premium features. This includes the free version of Notebook Rum, or 500 notebooks and 300 sources per notebook, up to 500 chat queries, and five times the usage of the 20 audio generation per day.
Individual subscribers now have access to all of these features in Google One AI Premium Tier. This costs $20 a month. Additionally, Google has introduced a 50% discount for students in the US for over 18 years. We offer an AI premium of $9.99 per month.
“We’re committed to providing a range of services that are important to us,” said Kelly Schaefer, director of product and domain leads at Google Labs. In an interview.
It was launched as a project 2023, Notebooklm It attracted wider attention Following that debut Audio Overview Features Last September. Services that can generate audio conversations like podcasts based on user uploaded content, evelenlabs and Meta Copy the idea.
Meanwhile, Google offers Guides AI-generated audio conversations.
Schaefer told TechCrunch that Google plans to enhance Notebooklm’s audio overview by supporting other languages beyond English.
“We’re thinking about ways to prioritize languages, and most importantly, just like the current audio overview, they’re really authentic, seamless and natural. I’m thinking of ways to check it out,” she said.
Schaefer has not disclosed the Gemini AI model that Google uses for NotebookLM, but it says that the underlying model is currently the same for both Plus and non-premium users. Google Labs experiments with a variety of Gemini variations, constantly using “the latest and best matching Gemini models for specific tasks at hand.”
The team is also working to bring NotebookLM to mobile devices via a dedicated app, Schaefer told us, but did not share a specific timeline.
“We want what mobile feels in many ways similar to desktop experiences, but we’ll really adjust it for the most common use cases for mobile,” Schafer said.
Additionally, the company is exploring how NoteBookLM can be utilized. Emerging of inference models And we work on thought and reasoning experiences.
Notebooklm Plus is expanded to individual subscribers of the Google One AI Premium Plan, but brings access to Gemini Advanced, Gmail’s Gemini, Docs, and 2TB of cloud storage access, while Schaefer has teams said it will continue to support non-paying users.
“We want people to get a great experience with Notebooklm, whether they’re free or paid. Using the free experience of Notebooklm is great. is very important, so we’re thinking more about how we can provide more to our plus users, reducing the free user experience,” she said.
Google has not revealed the actual number of users or the size of the team for Notebooklm, and is simply saying it has grown over time.
However, data from market intelligence providers Similar Web The AI assistant suggests that he has seen 28.18 million visits in the past three months, with almost 9 million people in January alone.