GoKawiilMillions of people have turned to NotebookLM since it launched three years ago for studying, synthesizing and summarizing documents, and data organization. Now, NotebookLM is getting a big upgrade to become an even better research assistant.
Google said its AI product will gain "new agentic capabilities in chat and more advanced reasoning" to handle even more complex research tasks and projects. Below, I'll break down the new updates coming to NotebookLM, rolling out globally now to Google AI Ultra subscribers and Workspace business customers with AI Ultra access.
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Chat gets a major upgrade
NotebookLM's chat tool now runs on Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity to improve accuracy and give clearer visibility into its reasoning and outputs, which Google said was a highly requested feature.
Each notebook includes a secure cloud computer, so NotebookLM can write and run code for deeper research and analysis. NotebookLM also has more than 100 curated software skills to expand its thinking steps and allow it to create a wider range of results.
More formatting options
NotebookLM can now output answers in a wider variety of ways. The AI tool will assemble context from your sources into downloadable, editable artifacts, including data visualizations (png, svg), documents (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, text), images via Nano Banana (png, jpg, gif), structured data (CSV, JSON) and Microsoft formats (XLSX, PPTX).
Google plans for more output formats to come in the future.
Research gets easier and more trustworthy
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