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Martin: A dedicated mobile app is NotebookLM's next major product horizon

Raiza Martin · Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs) · Oct 10, 2024 · at 28:59

Raiza Martin, Senior Product Manager for AI at Google Labs, discusses immediate tactical priorities on the product roadmap for NotebookLM.

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“The mobile app to me is such a big gap in terms of the experience today, which I think is like understandable considering where we're at in like the product development cycle. But I think that's the next horizon is, hey, how different is the mobile experience and how, how can we make it interesting?”

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