Google’s latest release from its Search Lab experiment will turn your daily scrolling into an AI-generated podcast.
Titled Daily Listen, the feature will provide a personalised five-minute podcast based on a user’s previous interactions with Google’s Discover feed as well as top stories from the day.
Via 9to5Google, the tool launched on Wednesday (8 January) and it is available to Android and iOS users of the Google app in the US who have opted into the company’s Search Labs experiment.
Google notes that Daily Listen has parallels to NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature, which turns documents, slides and charts into podcasts featuring AI virtual hosts.
If a user has access to the feature, the Daily Listen section will appear as a widget at the top of the Discover feed. The UI of the tool will be reminiscent of traditional podcast players, with options to play, pause and scrub audio, and also includes a text-based transcript.
Google is yet to confirm if the Daily Listen trial will be rolled out beyond the US and has given no indication of a timeframe for it to be promoted to feature status, as NotebookLM recently was.
Google streamlines its AI teams
Also this week, Google further streamlined its AI development teams by moving them under Google DeepMind.
Logan Kilpatrick, who leads Google’s AI studio developer platform, confirmed in a post on X that Google’s AI Studio teams and the team developing the API for the company’s Gemini series of models will be moving under Google’s AI Research and Development division, which was formed in 2023 from a merger of Google’s DeepMind and Google Brain team from Google Research.
Today I am happy to share that Google AI Studio and the Gemini Developer API (along with our teams) are moving over to @GoogleDeepMind!
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) January 9, 2025
This move will allow us to double down on our already deep collaboration and accelerate the research to developer pipeline. Time to build!
Kilpatrick stated: “This move allows us to double down on our already deep collaboration and accelerate the research to developer pipeline.
“The mission for our team stays the same, build the world’s best AI developer platform which brings the latest models, tools and techniques from Google to external developers so you all can build the future.”
