NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook and it has new capabilities

Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, expanding its research assistant across the company’s AI ecosystem. Josh Woodward announces the change in an official Google blog post, noting that more than 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations already use the tool to summarize documents, prepare onboarding materials or turn notes into audio and video content.

The rebrand comes with technical upgrades. Every notebook now gets a secure cloud computer that lets Gemini Notebook write and execute code directly, supporting deeper data analysis grounded in a user’s own sources. Google AI Ultra subscribers and Workspace customers with AI Ultra or AI Expanded Access can already use this feature, and it will reach all Pro users on the web in the coming weeks, Woodward writes in the announcement.

Gemini Notebook will also become accessible beyond its standalone app. Users can already create and sync notebooks inside the Gemini app, and Google plans to bring the feature into AI Mode in Search as well.

More powerful research under the hood

The renaming follows an update Google first described in June and updated in July, when Trond Wuellner and Usama Bin Shafqat detailed in a separate blog post how the tool moved to Gemini 3.5 and gained agentic research capabilities. According to their internal evaluations, the upgraded system beat its predecessor with a 78.2 percent win rate in web research and source discovery, and a 69.9 percent win rate in large document analysis.

New output formats now include spreadsheets, slide decks, PDFs with charts, and images generated with Nano Banana. Google says the tool can also help users find new sources through web search when starting a project from scratch, while keeping all citations transparent and under the user’s control.

Sources

• NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook – Google Blog
• Do better research with NotebookLM – Google Blog