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

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

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

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 knowledge you’ve got uploaded. It’s also possible to create a Thoughts Map, which visually summarizes uploaded sources, exhibiting one most important 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 bear 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 software.

Google has launched an official app for the software 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.