Three members of Google’s NotebookLM staff, together with its staff lead and designer, have introduced they’re leaving Google for a brand new stealth startup.
On LinkedIn, ex-team lead Raiza Martin stated she and her two different co-founders, designer Jason Spielman and engineer Stephen Hughes, “couldn’t shake the sensation that there’s a large alternative to construct one thing transformative on this house.”
The startup is in full stealth mode with solely a bare-bones web site that provides no particulars about its objective and even its title. It’s not clear if the startup will concentrate on issues that NotebookLM went viral for, similar to AI-generated podcasts and AI-assisted note-taking, or if it can do one thing completely totally different.
In feedback to TechCrunch, Martin gave few particulars however hinted that the startup can be consumer-facing, emphasizing the staff needed to create one thing that leverages the most recent AI fashions to construct one thing helpful to common folks.
“As the frontier fashions and their capabilities proceed to develop, considerate merchandise are required to make the advantages of this know-how accessible, helpful, and apparent to on a regular basis folks — so our staff goes to be centered on constructing a user-first AI product,” she stated.
Martin added that the brand new startup is in its very early levels and has not introduced any funding but. However, she famous that “help outdoors of Google (from fellow founders, buyers, lecturers, individuals who wish to be a part of) has been super and it’s been actually encouraging for our small staff.”
