Google has announced that the fully featured tier of its AI research assistant will be made available to all subscribers to its Google One AI Premium plan.
Google calls NotebookLM “a new kind of notebook designed to help people learn faster,” which uses generative artificial intelligence to summarize multiple documents and assemble digestible insights. But it dropped jaws when its functionality to produce entire podcasts was showcased last October.
Previously only available for business and educational organizations or via Google Cloud, NotebookLM Plus is now available as part of Google’s wider productivity plans with a discount available for students.
5x More AI-Generated Podcasts
Google made the announcement via a post on its The Keyword blog from Google One AI Premium Product Lead, Vikas Kansal, with the change effective immediately.
It confirmed that the NotebookLM Plus tier will be added to the features already included with the Google One AI Premium Plan, including access to Google’s Gemini Advanced generative AI chatbot, AI integration across the suite of Google apps, priority access to future tools, and 2TB of storage.
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NotebookLM Plus gives users the ability to customize the style and tone of their notebooks and create shared documents to use in collaboration with friends and colleagues.
But the standout feature to many is the promise of “5x more Audio Overviews, notebooks, queries, and sources.” That means a greater capacity to create podcasts generated from your documents, complete with multiple hosts, interruptions, and vocal tics.
That’s in addition to the basic features already provided with the entry-level NotebookLM tier – available with a free Google One account – to create a limited number of one-click summaries, FAQs, timelines, briefing documents, and podcasts.
Pod of All Things
Google One AI Premium costs $18.99 per month, although you can try it for free for the first month.
However, US students aged 18 and older are eligible to get their first year of the plan for nearly half price – it’s priced at $9.99 for each of the first 12 months.
This student discount, Kansal says, “can help them work with more course materials, create custom study experts using Gemini Advanced, save time crafting emails and more”.
AI-Grade Students
Kansal says that NotebookLM can “help you ace a career certification, generate ideas, or synthesize data for a project,” but much of the hype surrounding it has been focused on what he calls its tool for creating a “podcast-style audio discussion.”
Unsurprisingly, the viral furor that greeted the feature immediately spawned similar tools from competing tech companies in the artificial intelligence space, with Meta launching the similar NotebookLlama shortly afterwards.
While music streamer Spotify used Google’s version to power the personalized podcasts that appeared alongside users’ Wrapped rundowns at the end of last year.
