NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus now available as a Google Workspace core service with enterprise-grade data protection
What’s changing
NotebookLM is a powerful AI-powered research assistant that helps users accelerate learning and knowledge sharing. Grounded in data that users in your organization provide, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so users can get insights, share knowledge and learn on-to-go with Audio Overviews.
NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus, previously introduced as additional services, are now included as core services for Workspace Business and Enterprise customers. Covered under your Google Workspace terms of service, these apps offer the same enterprise-grade data protections and level of technical support as other Workspace core services.
NotebookLM helps users:
- Understand a complex topic faster and more in depth. After uploading files, recordings or even research papers, users can ask NotebookLM to explain multifaceted concepts in simple terms, provide real-world examples, and reinforce their understanding.
- Create a polished presentation outline, complete with key talking points and supporting evidence.
- Identify trends, generate new product ideas, and uncover hidden opportunities.
- Get insights and answers from a shared, centralized knowledge hub to maintain consistency and keep teams aligned and informed.
NotebookLM Plus includes the components mentioned above in addition to enhanced capabilities that enable users to:
- Get 5x more Audio Overviews, queries, notebooks, and sources per notebook.
- Customize the style and length of their notebooks’s responses.
- Create shared notebooks for their team and get usage analytics.
In summary, users have access to a personalized AI research assistant that they can use with confidence knowing their sources, queries and responses stay within their organization.
Who’s impacted
Admins and end users (18+)
Why you’d use it
Today, businesses of all sizes use it to supercharge their productivity and collaboration. For example, sales teams can add their product roadmap and feature specs, competitor benchmarking analysis, customer audio interviews, and market research to NotebookLM. As a result, NotebookLM can help you prepare for customer meetings by creating an account plan to help your team find information faster and better engage with customers. Marketers can use NotebookLM to help summarize customer trends and purchase behaviors, draft communications, create campaign briefs, and more–all based on market research, customer segmentation analysis, and marketing roadmaps.
Additional details
NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus are available in 180+ regions where Gemini API is available and currently supports 35+ languages. For Audio Overviews, while you can upload sources from all supported languages, the spoken audio is currently only available in English.
Your uploads, queries and the model's responses are not used to train models and are not reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used for product improvement without permission. Your data remains your data and any files uploaded, queries and responses are not shared outside your organization’s trust boundary.
Users can only upload sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. Furthermore, they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions within each.
Getting started
- Admins:
- No action is required from you. However, we recommend that you review NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus coming to Google Workspace for more details about qualifying Google Workspace editions, default service settings for NotebookLM, and how to turn this service on or off.
- Learn more about the available admin controls and our commitment to you in the Privacy Hub.
- End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 5, 2025
Availability
NotebookLM is available as a core service for Google Workspace:
- Business Starter
- Frontline Starter and Standard
- Essentials Starter, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
- Nonprofits
- Business Standard and Plus
- Enterprise Standard and Plus
- Gemini Business*
- Gemini Enterprise*
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.