Google’s NotebookLM will now do ‘deep research’

Google is pairing up 2 of its probe products: NotebookLM and Gemini’s agentic AI instrumentality Deep Research. On Thursday, the institution announced that each users volition person entree to Deep Research successful NotebookLM wrong a week. 

Google precocious linked Deep Research to different Workspace products similar Gmail and Drive, allowing Gemini to gully discourse from a user’s emails successful Gmail, files successful Drive, and chat logs successful Google Chat.

Now, NotebookLM users volition beryllium capable to nonstop a question to Deep Research and take betwixt 2 probe styles: accelerated oregon deep. The accelerated probe benignant volition “rapidly” look for information, portion the heavy benignant volition bash “in-depth investigation to find high-quality sources,” Google says. Users volition get a probe program earlier the probe begins utilizing either style. 

If you take to spell heavy with Deep Research, you’ll beryllium capable to adhd much sources arsenic the study generates successful the background. Google’s blog says this volition assistance “you assemble a affluent cognition basal connected immoderate taxable without leaving your workflow.” The last study connected the taxable volition see citations to applicable articles, websites, oregon papers, each of which you tin popular into your notebook. 

In summation to Deep Research, NotebookLM is expanding to enactment with respective caller record types. You tin present nexus Google Sheets and inquire for statistic based connected the structured data, oregon you tin adhd Drive files similar PDFs via URL nexus alternatively of uploading them straight to NotebookLM. Google volition present besides fto users adhd Microsoft Word files successful .docx format to NotebookLM.