[danpalmer]

I'm not so sure this is an open source NotebookLM as it is a few experiments in an iPython notebook. What NotebookLM does at an LLM level is not particularly novel, it's the packaging as a product in a different way than what others are doing that I think is interesting. Also the "podcast" bit is really just an intro/overview of a large corpus, far more useful is being able to discuss that corpus with the bot and get cited references.

What this does however demonstrate is that prototyping with LLMs is very fast. I'd encourage anyone who hasn't had a play around with APIs to give it a go.

[behnamoh]

> What NotebookLM does at an LLM level is not particularly novel, it's the packaging as a product...

Disagreed. NLM is novel in how the two hosts interrupt and overlap each other. No other OSS solution does that, they just take turns talking.

[danpalmer]

Fair point, although to me the "audio overviews" are a minor feature of the product.

[pmontra]

But that's a bad habit and we tell people not to do it. So it's a novel but undesirable feature IMHO.

[hackernewds]

not necessarily when you're really jiving with someone, the conversation flows really well. notice this is also what makes for really good vs bad television, example pulp fiction