Manyika: NotebookLM originated as Project Tailwind with a five-person team
James Manyika · How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika · Feb 18, 2026 · at 11:58
Google SVP James Manyika details the origins of Google's AI research tool NotebookLM.
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“So it started out as a protocol tailwind. There were four, five people working on it.”
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