Google Launches Project Tailwind, An AI-based Solution For Smarter Notetaking1 min read
Google has launched Project Tailwind, a notebook of the future powered by generative AI. The goal, Google says, is to take a user’s rough notes and automatically organise and summarise them while also helping you research the topic you are writing about.
To use Tailwind, users will have to sign up for Labs, Google’s new hub for experimental features and products. The user picks files from their Google Drive to train a private AI model, which then suggests information based on those files. Tailwind also offers a personalised interface that helps browse through the various notes and docs a user uploads/creates.
Similar to AI chatbots like Bard, users can ask Tailwind’s AI questions using simple prompts and get responses in the context of their documents and notes. Users can choose to include this information in their notes, and it will be done so with citations to sources within your documents.
The point here is that users are suggested information not just from the web but also their own notes, giving them greater control over the kind of responses they get.
Many features that Tailwind provides are enabled by the newly-launched API of PaLM 2.
At the I/O conference, Google listed college students, writers, and analysts as potential users for Tailwind. However, the app is only available in the US for now, that too in a waitlist. The waitlist for “Project Tailwind” is open now, but it’s only available in the United States for now.
