The shared service lets other users interact with your stored notebooks, to ask questions and make podcasts of your research. You can restrict access to only chats, if you like.
Why it’s so revolutionary
NotebookLM was originally intended for researchers, but quickly got popular with students and normal users as well.
It lets you upload your sources, whether it is class notes, reading materials, Youtube videos or simply web pages. Then you can use Gemini 2.0 Pro to produce summaries, or chat with it to learn about the content, or have it produce podcasts of the material «talking to each other.»
You can also share full notebooks with others by entering their email address, and give individual users the ability to edit your notebook, The Verge notes.
Read more: Google’s blog post, NotebookLM on Google, The Verge, Android Police, and XDA.