Choosing the right AI tools for your organization is crucial. Google offers NotebookLM Enterprise and Google Agentspace Enterprise, powerful AI solutions designed for distinct challenges. This guide clarifies when to use each.
NotebookLM Enterprise, AI-powered research and knowledge assistant
NotebookLM Enterprise is an AI-powered research assistant for individuals and teams. It helps create notebooks, which are organized collections of your curated, hand-selected documents, websites, and other sources on a given topic. A notebook becomes your single reference point for deep understanding, content creation, and knowledge sharing from your trusted sources.
Key features of NotebookLM Enterprise
NotebookLM Enterprise includes the following key features:
Centralized knowledge: Notebooks serve as a single, trusted reference for specific topics, projects, or departments, built from your intentionally selected sources.
Targeted chat: NotebookLM Enterprise provides a chat-based Q&A experience, with AI responses strictly confined to the notebook's information.
One-click content: You can generate diverse artifacts (general content, FAQs, timelines, and so on) directly from sources.
Interactive audio: You can transform notebook content into interactive audio podcasts for on-the-go consumption.
Content synthesis: NotebookLM Enterprise can quickly synthesize insights, summarize, and draft new content from your uploaded documents.
Data control: Your data remains under access control and isn't used for external model training.
Focus: You can create, centralize, and leverage knowledge from specific, sources that you provide. Interact with notebooks to understand the sources and generate content based on those sources.
When to use NotebookLM Enterprise
Choose NotebookLM Enterprise when you want to do the following:
Establish a single, AI-powered reference point for a topic or project using known, authoritative sources.
Create targeted, chat-based Q&A experiences from a defined set of source documents.
Efficiently generate specific documents (such as study guides, FAQs, and timelines) from a curated knowledge base.
Transform detailed, written information into interactive audio formats.
Perform deep analysis and synthesis of information within a specific, limited set of documents.
Agentspace Enterprise, the broad AI assistant and agentic platform
Agentspace Enterprise is an advanced AI assistant and an agentic platform for comprehensive information retrieval, multi-modal content generation, and autonomous AI agent orchestration. It extends beyond document-specific knowledge, enabling search across all enterprise data—in Google systems or third-party SaaS applications—and provides robust capabilities for building, deploying, and invoking AI agents to automate complex, multi-step tasks.
Key features of Agentspace Enterprise
Agentspace Enterprise includes the following key features:
Enterprise-wide search: Agentspace Enterprise gives you comprehensive content search across all enterprise data, including Google and third-party SaaS applications.
Multi-modal content generation: Agentspace Enterprise can generate diverse text and multi-modal content.
Advanced agentic platform: You can build, deploy, and invoke specialized AI agents for complex, automated tasks.
Autonomous workflows: You can design agents to execute actions, make decisions, and adapt autonomously to achieve objectives.
System integration: Agents can interact with internal systems, external APIs, and users.
Goal-oriented automation: You can focus on achieving specific business outcomes through automated AI processes, even with unclear initial paths.
Focus: Agentspace Enterprise is ideal for broad information discovery, comprehensive content generation, and orchestrating autonomous AI agents for action-oriented workflows.
When to use Agentspace Enterprise
Choose Agentspace Enterprise when you want to do the following:
Find answers when the search starting point across enterprise data is unknown.
Generate diverse content (text, multi-modal) requiring synthesis from various sources.
Build, deploy, and invoke specialized AI agents for complex, multi-step business process automation.
Automate workflows that require AI agents to interact with multiple internal and external systems.
Provide comprehensive information retrieval across all enterprise data, including third-party SaaS applications.
Upload a specific document and ask one-off questions about its contents.
Analyze data in more complicated formats, such as Microsoft Excel, CSV, and images embedded within PDFs.
Product comparison
The following product comparison table summarizes and contrasts various important aspects of the two products (NotebookLM Enterprise and Agentspace Enterprise.
NotebookLM Enterprise |
Agentspace Enterprise |
|
Primary Goal |
Centralized knowledge, content generation from your own documents |
Enterprise-wide data search, multi-modal content generation, and agent orchestration |
Input |
Your uploaded documents, websites, and specific sources |
Broad queries and data from across enterprise systems (Google and third-party SaaS) |
Output |
Synthesized insights, generated content (FAQs, timelines), interactive audio podcasts, and chat-based questions and answers confined to sources |
Answers from diverse data, text and multi-modal content from across your enterprise, and automated actions by agents |
User |
Individual knowledge workers, small teams, content creators |
Process owners, developers, IT, operations, business analysts, general knowledge seekers, and content creators |
Complexity |
Focused knowledge management and document-specific chat experiences |
Orchestrating multi-agent systems for business processes and general AI assistance |
Core Function |
Understanding and extracting from unstructured text, generating content based on your sources |
Comprehensive information retrieval, multi-modal content creation, and autonomous agent execution |
How NotebookLM Enterprise and Agentspace Enterprise work together
NotebookLM Enterprise and Agentspace Enterprise are complementary products, enhancing each other's value. Agentspace Enterprise provides broad, enterprise data search that often leads to the discovery of new, valuable sources from Google systems and third-party SaaS applications. Users can then add these newly-discovered sources directly into a NotebookLM Enterprise notebook, further enriching their curated knowledge bases. This integration allows Google Agentspace to act as a powerful engine for discovery, helping users find and curate content to make their notebooks more comprehensive and authoritative.