Google talks up NotebookLM upgrades...

Google used information from its I/O developer convention this yr to point out what NotebookLM can do. The AI-powered analysis and note-taking device has been around for years, however the firm has infused it with an increasing number of options as its AI tech improved. To reveal these options, Google created a notebook full of information from I/O 2025, together with a YouTube video of the keynote (full with a transcript of the entire occasion), press releases, weblog posts and even product demonstrations. You may go to all of these one after the other, because the firm uploaded them as sources to the pocket book, however you can too use the AI device to digest all the data for you.

You may ask NotebookLM something you need concerning the occasion within the chat field, as a way to shortly discover particulars for no matter it’s you need to know. After I requested it what’s NotebookLM, as an example, it gave me a response that aligned with what was introduced in the course of the occasion. “In accordance with Google’s bulletins at I/O,” the device responded, “…NotebookLM turns into an ‘professional’ by grounding its responses within the supplied materials and providing inventive methods to rework data.”

Below the Studio part of its interface, you’ll generate audio overviews that can provide you a fast or a extra complete spoken abstract of the data you have uploaded. It’s also possible to create a Thoughts Map, which visually summarizes uploaded sources, displaying one fundamental matter branching in direction of a number of smaller subjects and related concepts. Thoughts Maps are supposed to construction data in a method that is simpler to grasp and bear in mind. Google added a reminder to its announcement, nevertheless, that “like all AI, NotebookLM can generate inaccuracies,” which is one thing to bear in mind whereas utilizing the device.

Google has launched an official app for the device in time for I/O 2025, which now you can obtain on Android or iOS. To see the corporate’s I/O 2025 notebook, you will need to be signed right into a Google account.