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Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

9:00 AM PDT · July 16, 2026

Google might launch an AI product with one name during its experimental phase, but it will eventually tie it all to Gemini. In the latest example of this trend, the company is renaming its AI-powered research product NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The company is also adding features to make the tool more interactive by infusing coding execution for data analysis.

The company first showed off NotebookLM during Google IO in 2023 as Project Tailwind, and since then, it has made it into a product used by 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations. In the last three years, the company has added capabilities, like interactive podcast generation, curated notebooks, video overviews, support for more file types, and an enterprise plan.

Because of NotebookLM, other companies and startups have added capabilities for podcast generation from source material and research tools.

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Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

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