

EP 519: NotebookLM Updates - Thinking model and 50+ languages. What you need to know.
68 snips May 6, 2025
Google unveils a game-changing update to NotebookLM, enhancing its reasoning capabilities and making it multilingual with support for over 50 languages. The hosts showcase how these new features transform AI document summaries. They dive into the educational benefits of using NotebookLM and encourage community engagement through reviews and newsletters. Listeners also get a sneak peek at an upcoming keynote collaboration with IBM, promising exciting advancements in AI learning.
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Gemini 2.5 Thinking Model Upgrade
- Notebook LM now runs on Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, a thinking model enabling complex multi-step reasoning.
- This upgrade delivers more nuanced, comprehensive answers grounded only in user-provided data.
Audio Overviews Go Multilingual
- Notebook LM's audio overviews now support over 50 languages, greatly expanding accessibility worldwide.
- This makes the tool appealing to a global user base beyond English speakers for the first time.
Control AI Within Your Data
- Use Notebook LM to control AI reasoning strictly within your own data, preventing unintended external knowledge use.
- This is ideal when accuracy and data privacy matter most in AI usages.