New in NotebookLM: Customizing your Audio Overviews and introducing NotebookLM Business

NotebookLM, powered by Gemini 1.5, is a fantastic tool designed to help you dive deep into your sources and become an instant expert. Once you upload your materials, it transforms into a knowledgeable companion, offering you innovative ways to manipulate and understand the information. And don't worry—your personal data stays private and is never used to train NotebookLM.

Already, millions of folks are using NotebookLM to tackle complex info, and we're excited to announce that we're dropping the "Experimental" tag and rolling out some fresh features.

Enhance Your Audio Overviews

We've been thrilled with how much you all love Audio Overviews, and we're adding a couple of cool new tricks:

• Guide the Conversation: You can now give instructions before generating a "Deep Dive" Audio Overview. Whether you want to zoom in on certain topics or tweak the expertise level for your listeners, it's like handing the AI hosts a cheat sheet before they hit the airwaves, shaping how they'll discuss your content.
• Background Listening: Keep the Audio Overviews playing while you work within NotebookLM. You can ask questions, check citations, and dig into relevant quotes without pausing the audio.

To give it a whirl, just follow these steps:

1. Head over to NotebookLM
2. Start a new notebook
3. Drop in at least one source
4. In your NotebookLM guide, hit "Generate" for an automatic Audio Overview or "Customize" to set your instructions for the AI hosts

Remember, Audio Overviews are more like a chat based on your sources and any tweaks you make, not a full or unbiased rundown of a topic.

Introducing NotebookLM Business

We're excited to introduce NotebookLM Business, coming soon through Google Workspace. It'll come packed with extra features tailored for businesses, universities, and other organizations. From day one, we've put a huge emphasis on data privacy and security, and that won't change.

Starting today, you can sign up for the NotebookLM Business pilot to get a sneak peek at new features, plus training and email support. While you wait, you can keep using the free version of NotebookLM. We'll spill the beans on when NotebookLM Business will be available to everyone and how much it'll cost later this year.

With over 80,000 organizations already on board with NotebookLM, we can't wait to welcome even more.