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Published · transcript-backedRaiza Martin: observation
25 Oct 2024 Latent Space How NotebookLM Was Made
“announcement in 23, we'd already done a lot of studies. And one of the first things that I realized was the first thing anybody ever typed was, summarize the thing.”
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- Raiza Martin
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- 25 Oct 2024
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- Latent Space
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- How NotebookLM Was Made
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…Was the initial product just text-to-speech? Or were you also doing kind of, like, synthesizing of the content, refining it? Or were you just helping people read through it? Before we did the I.O. announcement in 23, we'd already done a lot of studies. And one of the first things that I realized was the first thing anybody ever typed was, summarize the thing. Right? Summarize the document. And it was, like, half like a test and half just like, oh, I know the content. I want to see how well it does this. So it was part of the first thing that we launched. It was called Project Tailwind back then. It was just Q&A, so you could chat with the doc just through text, and it would automatically generate a summary as well. I'm not sure if we had it back then. I think we did. It would also generate the key topics in your document, and it could support up to, like, 10 documents. So it wasn't just, like, a single doc. And then the I.O. demo went well, I guess. And then what was the discussion from there to where we are today? Is there any, maybe, intermediate step of the product that people missed between this was launch or?…
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