Google expands NotebookLM Plus to individual users

Google rolls out NotebookLM Plus for individuals via Google One AI Premium.

: Google has expanded NotebookLM Plus to individual users with a Google One AI Premium subscription. The service, priced at $20 monthly, offers enhanced limits and features, with a 50% student discount. NotebookLM Plus includes 500 notebooks, 300 sources per notebook, and more. Ambitions include multilingual support and a mobile app.

Google has widened availability of its enhanced AI-based note-taking tool, NotebookLM Plus, to individual customers who are part of the Google One AI Premium plan. Launched as a project in 2023, with an introductory monthly subscription price of $20, it offers significant upgrades over its free counterpart, including a drastic increase in allowed usage limits. Furthermore, Google is providing a promotional discount of 50% for U.S. students above 18 years old, reducing the monthly cost to $9.99. The feature set includes support for up to 500 notebooks and 300 sources per notebook, alongside 500 chat queries and 20 audio generations per day.

Innovations in NotebookLM Plus also offer the "Audio Overviews" feature, which lets users generate audio summaries of uploaded content, inspiring product features at firms like ElevenLabs and Meta. Upcoming updates include support for additional languages beyond English, although Kelly Schaefer, Google's Director of Product and Domain Lead, didn’t specify a release date. Work is also underway on a mobile version of NotebookLM, aiming for consistency in experience across platforms, while maintaining unique mobile features.

Beyond its premium service, Google is committed to retaining an excellent non-premium NotebookLM experience and pursuing enhancements using various Gemini AI models, although the exact variant details remain undisclosed. Google didn't reveal current NotebookLM user statistics or team size but acknowledged significant growth, with data from Similarweb reporting over 28 million visits in three months. All the while, the company is exploring reasoning models to create richer thinking experiences in NotebookLM.

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