New Update NotebookML is Google’s AI Notebook (‘Project Tailwind’)

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https://tailwind.sandbox.google.com/about

EXPERIMENTAL — Project Tailwind
Tailwind is your AI-first notebook, grounded in the information you choose and trust. Tailwind is an experiment, and currently available in the U.S. only. Join the waitlist to try it for yourself.

At I/O 2023 last month, Google previewed “Project Tailwind” as an “AI-first notebook” and early access is now coming “soon” with a new name, too.

Tailwind is a demo of the PaLM API that can help “anyone synthesizing information from many different sources” that they explicitly choose.

[…] Tailwind can create a study guide, summarize, or even a reading quiz, with a prompt-based UI letting you do more with the data. The goal is to help you learn faster, and Google imagines it will also be useful for “writers researching an article, or analysts going through earnings calls, or even lawyers preparing for a case.”

Source: Google says Project Tailwind is getting a new name, early access soon

 

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Project Tailwind is now called NotebookML

https://notebooklm.google.com/about

Sign up following the link above.

Google says that the NotebookLM model only has access to the documents you choose to upload and that your data is neither available to others nor is it used to train new AI models. This is one of the trickiest parts of a product like this: Google is asking users to give their private information to an AI model in exchange for some convenient and useful features, and that tradeoff gets more complicated the more sensitive the information becomes.

That may be why Google is starting small. NotebookLM is still only accessible via a waitlist in Google Labs, and the introductory blog post reiterates a few times that the product is still in its infancy. But just as the Search Generative Experience has the potential to reshape Google Search, don’t be surprised if NotebookLM looks a lot like the long-term future of Google Drive.

Source: Google’s AI-powered notes app is now called NotebookLM, and it’s launching today