Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
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Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook Ivan Mehta 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 I/O 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 .
Along with renaming, Google is rolling out a new update that makes each notebook its own secure container, in which users can generate code to make outputs interactive. It noted that with code execution ability, users can tap into multiple sources and create complex data analysis directly within the tool.
The company said the update is available to Google AI Ultra paid plan users, along with Workspace business customers with AI Ultra Access and AI Expanded Access. Pro users will get access to this feature in the coming weeks.
Google said that users can already look at their notebooks within the Gemini app, and soon, they will be able to access them through AI Mode in search.
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