Productivity, over and over again. Companies no longer swear by it. Tech giants are rubbing their hands in it, doubling down on custom tools and services. In this context, Google Cloud announces the launch of two solutions: Agentspace and NotebookLM Plus. These tools leverage Gemini AI Assistant’s advanced reasoning capabilities, Google Search, and seamless integration of business data regardless of location.
Agentspace, the ubiquitous assistant
Agentspace offers a multi-media search agent, customized to each company’s needs. In detail, it provides conversational assistance, answers complex questions, makes proactive suggestions, and performs data-driven actions for the business. It is capable of processing unstructured information (documents, emails) and structured information (tables), while incorporating a translation function that makes documents accessible regardless of their original language.
Thanks to pre-integrated connectors for key third-party applications like Confluence, Google Drive, Jira, Microsoft SharePoint and ServiceNow, employees can access and request data from different sources, the Mountain View giant promises, and ultimately, improve their decision-making. For those who want, Agentspace can also be a starting point for creating custom AI agents.
Data and artificial intelligence, a perfect marriage
“Soon, they will also be able to use a low-code visual tool to create and customize their own expert agents directly in Google Agentspace.” Refers to the company. Beyond the name, which is ambiguous to say the least, Google leaves no doubt about the fact that it is largely inspired by Microsoft and Its Copilot Studio platform Which since mid-October has allowed the creation of independent agents in specific areas, ranging from sales to finance.
To prove its ability to reach many sectors, no matter how far away, Google does not hesitate to persuade its customers to speak up. Youssef Bakkali, Group Product Manager at Decathlon, reports to Agentspace “It can become a key tool for our product designers, marketers and researchers.”while Alan Triggs, Chief Digital Officer at Nokia Particularly excited about Agentspace’s ability “To unify diverse data sources and provide personalized, context-specific responses.”
An advanced version of NotebookLM appears
Meanwhile, Google unveiled NotebookLM Plus, the most advanced version of NotebookLM. With it, Google wants to offer users a new way to interact with data: collect data, discover insights, and interact with this information through formats such as audio summaries or podcasts. The idea is to provide a new experience for employees.
NotebookLM Plus subscribers will enjoy a number of benefits, including: five times the availability of audio summaries, notebooks, and resources for each notebook, customization of the style and tone of notebook responses, a notebook engagement team with usage analytics, as well as enhanced security and confidentiality features. “NotebookLM Plus ensures that files, queries, and responses stay protected within the organization.”
This “Plus” version is available today to users in businesses, organizations, schools, and universities, as an additional service through Google Workspace, and will be subject to the NotebookLM Plus for Workspace terms of use, set by Google. NotebookLM Plus can also be purchased separately through Google Cloud with enterprise-level protection. It will also be included in the Google One AI Premium subscription from the beginning of 2025.
Security, Google logo!
To protect itself from an attack against the possible use of company data, Mountain View would like to point this out “For NotebookLM Plus users within Gemini for Workspace, uploaded files, form queries, and responses to training modules are not used and are not reviewed by third parties. Customer data remains their sole property, and no files, requests, or responses are shared outside of their trusted organization circumference.
News reported by A An accusation against his closest rival : Microsoft. The latter has been singled out by a number of users and Cyberciti.biz for its abusive use of its customers’ Word, Excel or Powerpoint documents to train its generative AI models. If this announcement turned out to be false, and was officially denied by Redmond, the announcement would have had only minor impact, in a climate of growing mistrust.
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