Introducing Google Gemini and NotebookLM

We’re excited to announce that Google’s generative AI services, Gemini and NotebookLM, are now available for use with your U-M Google account.

What are they?

• Gemini: Generative AI chat app that can be used to create new content and images, help brainstorm ideas, draft or summarize writing, explore complex topics, and assist with research and creative work.
• NotebookLM: AI-powered research and note-taking assistant using Google’s Gemini models. NotebookLM lets you upload your own sources, such as documents, PDFs, and Google Docs, and interact with them through summaries, questions, audio overviews, and AI-assisted exploration.
  • It’s especially helpful for synthesizing large amounts of information across uploaded materials.

How do I access them?

Both services are available to all active U-M faculty, staff, and students on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses, and Michigan Medicine.

Gemini

• You can access Gemini via the web app at https://gemini.google.com or the mobile app (Android and iOS) while logged in to your U-M Google account.
• You can connect and use some Google Workspace services within the Gemini web app.
• You cannot access the Gemini service integrations available within Drive, Gmail, Calendar, etc.

NotebookLM

• You can access NotebookLM via the web at https://notebooklm.google.com while logged in to your U-M Google account.
• The mobile app for Android and iOS is expected to be released on May 20.

Note: Google does not display the U-M logo beside your profile picture in Gemini or NotebookLM as they do in other Google services. Ensure you are logged into your U-M Google account when accessing them.

Privacy & security

• Gemini and NotebookLM are considered Core Services and approved for use with the same types of sensitive data as your U-M Google account.
• Your interactions, chats, uploaded files and sources, and generated content are not human-reviewed or used to train Google’s AI models, as long as you use your U-M Google account to access the apps. This information remains in U-M Google and is not shared externally with third parties.
• Within NotebookLM specifically, chat responses and audio overviews only use data from the sources you upload.
  • When using audio overviews in interactive mode, your voice and transcribed interactions with the AI hosts will not be stored.
• You can view your Gemini Apps Activity at any time. Your conversation history is retained for 18 months.

Refer to Using the Gemini App and Using NotebookLM for detailed information on each service and its available features/functionality. Refer to the ITS AI Services site for more general information on Google Gemini and NotebookLM at U-M.