What is Notion A.I?

A super talented and competitive space.

Hey Guys,

From Jasper.AI to Grammarly, to a long list of Generative A.I. startups doing writing, copywriting, marketing writing and helping to speed up content production - it’s going to get a bit crazy with A.I. assistants and writing in 2023 and 2024.

Notion @NotionHQ

Introducing Notion AI 🪄 Write faster. Think bigger. Augment your creativity.

Notion's latest feature is an AI that can write blog posts, to-do lists and more

Notion A.I. is promising to help you generate blog posts, first drafts and more. Even the LinkedIn profiles of its founders feel automated.

Let’s try to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Supposedly, Large language models (LLMs) mean your note-taking app can understand what you’re trying to write — and just write it for you.

Notion on November 16th, 2022 introduced Notion AI in private alpha, bringing the power of artificial intelligence right into your Notion workspace. I do not know what a Notion workspace is but I’d bet it has something to do with augmenting our productivity.

Guys please, no more stick figure photographs okay!

I’m not sure what these people think is good marketing.

Introducing Notion AI ~ Write faster. Think bigger. Augment your creativity. Learn more and sign up: notion.so/product/ai

Someday soon, Notion will be able to write your notes for you. But do I need any help in these things?

We’re at an important inflection point. The potential of artificial intelligence has grown exponentially, and will continue to grow. There’s so much power here already — and we wanted to bring that into Notion for our users.

So what can it actually do?

The pitch here is that, according to Notion CEO Ivan Zhao, Notion A.I. could change the way people use the app — and do their jobs.

In September, 2021 Notion acquired India’s Automate.io. Notion has raised $343 Million to date, at series C. That is a lot for a company maybe you’ve never heard of.

Notion, the company behind the popular note-taking app of the same name, has started testing a new feature called Notion AI that uses a generative AI to write notes and other content.

With so many Generative A.I. startups coming up and bigger companies like Jasper.AI and Grammarly, I really wonder at Notion AI’s product potential and mainstream adoption or path to a unique value proposition.

The first thing Notion AI is for, Zhao says, is writing. Lots of work requires writing, some of it repetitive (like creating new job descriptions) and some of it creative (like writing blog posts or brainstorming new ideas). Zhao thinks Notion AI can help in both cases.

Notion has a bunch of integrations, use cases like note taking and product roadmap timelines, and tools for startups and companies. Now with Notion A.I. it’s being upgraded.

According to the Verge, Notion is making use of the same large language models that companies like Google are starting to bake into search results and startups like Mem are using to structure your personal information.

I think Notion is trying to generate hype while trying out some of the Generative A.I. themselves, though the PR that was announced in mid November, appears to be just a bare-bones Alpha, so it isn’t so much a new product as a private alpha of a new product: the company plans to roll it out slowly and carefully but wants to start getting it out into users’ hands now.

It’s therefore not going to be a robust tool that competes directly with Jasper.AI or anyone at that level. It wants to take on a lot with A.I. features, and it’s impressive or daunting depending on how you look at it.