Google talks up NotebookLM upgrades by making it speak up Google I/O 2025

Google used information from its I/O developer convention this 12 months to indicate what NotebookLM can do. The AI-powered analysis and note-taking instrument has been around for years, however the firm has infused it with an increasing number of options as its AI tech improved. To show 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 may as well use the AI instrument to digest all the knowledge for you.

You may ask NotebookLM something you need concerning the occasion within the chat field, with the intention to shortly discover particulars for no matter it’s you wish to know. After I requested it what’s NotebookLM, as an illustration, it gave me a response that aligned with what was introduced through the occasion. “In line with Google’s bulletins at I/O,” the instrument responded, “…NotebookLM turns into an ‘knowledgeable’ by grounding its responses within the offered materials and providing artistic methods to rework info.”

Beneath the Studio part of its interface, you can generate audio overviews that may give you a fast or a extra complete spoken abstract of the knowledge you’ve got uploaded. You can even create a Thoughts Map, which visually summarizes uploaded sources, displaying one predominant subject branching in direction of a number of smaller matters and related concepts. Thoughts Maps are supposed to construction info in a means that is simpler to know and keep in mind. Google added a reminder to its announcement, nonetheless, that “like all AI, NotebookLM can generate inaccuracies,” which is one thing to bear in mind whereas utilizing the instrument.

Google has launched an official app for the instrument 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 may need to be signed right into a Google account.