NotebookLM

Research assistant that answers questions and generates summaries from your uploaded source materials.

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Overview

NotebookLM is a research assistant built around user-provided source materials. It helps users ask questions about their sources and create summaries from them. The Google product is available through a web application and is designed for source-grounded study, research, and document work.

Key features

  • Source-based question answering
  • Document summaries
  • Notebook-based organization
  • Grounded research workflows
  • Web application access

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Last updated 2026-09-16