Google brings Gemini 1.5 Pro-powered NotebookLM to India: All the details

Google NotebookLM

Google has started rolling out the Gemini 1.5 Pro-powered version of its AI-based note-taking assistant ‘NotebookLM’ to more than 200 new countries and territories, including India, the tech giant announced on X.

The California-based search engine giant launched the NotebookLM in the US to select users in July last year. The Gemini 1.5 Pro-powered NotebookLM comes augmented with new features like support for Google Slides and web URLs as sources, inline citations, and more.

NotebookLM is Google’s AI-powered research and writing assistant, now upgraded with Gemini 1.5 Pro. Google’s AI-based note-taking assistant takes information from sources provided by users like documents, notes, transcripts, and more to answer questions and form summaries.

Google NotebookLM: New features

Google has upgraded its AI-powered note-taking assistant with three new features:

Google Slides and web URLs can now be taken as sources

Google’s NotebookLM now supports Google Slides and web URLs as sources. The AI notebook already comes with support for Google Docs, PDFs, and text files.

Inline citations 

To gather more information from the original text or to fact-check the AI responses, Google has added inline citations to NotebookLM’s new version. These will take you directly to “supporting passages in the sources”. According to Google, the upgraded NotebookLM will “even include citations to images as supporting evidence when relevant.”

Notebook guide to convert content into different formats

Google’s NotebookLM now comes with a Notebook guide through which you can convert your content into formats like FAQs, Briefing Docs, or Study Guides.

According to Google, the incorporation of Gemini 1.5 Pro will now allow users to “ask questions about images, charts, and diagrams” in their sources.

How Google’s NotebookLM is different from OpenAI’s ChatGPT

The NotebookLM uses the information from the notes and documents the user uploads to give them the desired response, referred to as “source grounding”. It means you are grounding the AI-powered note-taking assistant to the source(s) that you provide, thus creating a personalized AI experience. Upload Google Docs files and/or add other sources, ask questions, generate summaries, etc

When you use Google’s NotebookLM, you are not simply asking it to find answers to your queries as you do with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, which sources its answers from the internet. Instead, the NotebookLM will use the sources you provide, like Google Docs or Slides, to give you information.