Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 578: NotebookLM’s New Video Overviews: 5 pieces of practical advice
Episode Date: July 30, 2025My mind is blown by NotebookLM.... again!The viral AI tool by Google just released an extremely impressive new update to its popular tool in Video Overviews. If you haven't used these yet, you w...on't want to miss this show. On Wednesdays, we put AI to work for you and your business with practical and actionable walkthroughs. This new release from Google couldn't have come at a better time.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Thoughts on this? Join the convo and connect with other AI leaders on LinkedIn.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:NotebookLM Video Overviews Feature LaunchHow NotebookLM Video Overviews WorkUpdates to NotebookLM Studio InterfaceCustomization and Personalization in Video OverviewsPulling Visuals from Uploaded PDFs in NotebookLMCreating Multiple and Multilingual Overview VersionsNotebookLM vs Google Gemini vs ChatGPT ComparisonFive Practical Uses for NotebookLM in BusinessTimestamps:00:00 "Everyday AI Livestream & Newsletter"05:09 New Paid Account Feature Details08:21 Keynote Speaking and Trainings Overview12:41 Dynamic Content Creation Tools14:25 "Personalized Onboarding with Notebook LM"20:11 "Interactive Audio-Visual Learning Benefits"21:41 Customizable Content for Diverse Teams26:26 Studio Panel Features Overview28:42 "AI Hype: Agent or Illusion?"30:53 Daily Content Review ProcessKeywords:NotebookLM, Google, NotebookLM video overviews, AI-powered video summaries, generative AI, video overviews, audio overviews, NotebookLM Studio, Google Gemini, AI learning tools, AI at work, business leaders AI tips, personalization features, customizable AI video, PDF uploads, AI keynote presentations, onboarding videos, HR onboarding AI, multilingual AI content, research analyst, team training AI, briefing docs, study guides, FAQs, mind maps, timelines, multitasking in AI tools, content sources, workspace accounts, sharing AI notebooks, visual AI summaries, global collaboration tools, Gemini 2.5 Flash, AI model grounding, AI content personalization, AI content creation, onboarding automation, pitch deck AI, industry-specific overviews, knowledge sharing, productivity tools, user interface updates, AI-powered preseSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist.
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Google's notebook LM has just released video overviews and a handful of other new updates.
And I think these are pretty big.
There's very few times as someone that covers AI every single day where I'm impressed by something.
Maybe three years ago, I was more easily impressed.
But looking at things every single day now, I'm not easily impressed.
And these new video overviews from Google's Notebook LM actually took me back for a second.
And I'm like, wait, I'm having one of those moments where I see something in generative AI.
And I'm like, this can change how we learn and create.
So in today's show, we're going to be going over Notebook LM's new video overviews
and five pieces of practical advice for everyday business.
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that newsletter. So let's talk about what is new inside of notebook L.M's new video overviews.
And this is part of our new weekly kind of AI at work on Wednesdays, where on Wednesdays,
we do a very practical and actionable tutorial, sometimes on, you know, new features, new updates,
but more than anything, trying to give you a way in the middle of the week that you can start
winning back time by using generative AI. So hopefully you all are enjoying,
this new segment and you all did pick this, FYI.
So we put something in our newsletter.
We said, you know, in the last like three days,
there's been so many new announcements and you all overwhelmingly wanted to see and hear
about the new notebook LM updates.
So today we're going to go over how Notebook LM's new video overviews work.
We're going to detail other new updates inside of Notebook LM studio.
They might seem small.
I think they're actually big.
And I'm going to dish five important things that you need to.
to know to take advantage of all of these things.
All right.
So let's start live.
Before we get started, live stream audience, give me a suggestion here.
I need a profession.
All right.
And I'm going to explain why, but it can be anything like, you know,
seasoned marketer, recent HR hire, you know, give me a specific profession if you could.
And I'm going to wait for one.
And then I'm going to share my screen here.
And what we're going to do is I'm going to essentially start a video.
overview. I have a notebook inside of notebook L.M already loaded up. All right. I just, I just want to show you all
how this happens live, how this works. And we're going to get it started now. And then we're going to go
over kind of bullet points of what's new, how it works. All right. So we're going to start,
you know, start this thing kind of at the end. We're going to put the cake in the oven, so to speak.
And then we're going to talk and break down the recipe for success. So let's see. We have a couple
options so far.
Live stream audience.
Thank you for your suggestions and good to see you all as always.
So so far, Richard said new engineer.
We have red pen here on YouTube saying consultant, marketer, product manager,
research analyst, IT consultant, realtor.
All right, let me think.
Let me think.
I'll give a live stream audience another 30 seconds to get things going here.
Real estate broker, data analytics, compliance officer.
All right, let's do, I like, I like research analysts.
We're going to do a research analyst.
All right.
So, we're going to do this live.
So live stream audience, if you also could, please let me know if you can see my screen.
I'm going to be sharing this here in a second.
All right.
All right.
So hopefully live stream audience, you can see my screen.
Please let me know if you can.
All right.
So like I said, we're going to start at the end.
And then I'm going to go through an.
explain everything that's new.
All right.
So there's a new panel on the right hand side.
And if you don't see this yet, number one, you need to have a paid account.
At least they didn't say this outright.
But previous features are limited to paid accounts.
So I'm going to reach out to my friends at Google and verify these things.
But I'm pretty sure this is only available to paid accounts.
Another thing, I have multiple paid accounts for Google Gemini.
So if you have that $20 a month, Google Gemini update, you can go to Notebook LM, log in and see if you have this.
You'll know if you have it, if on the right hand side, if you, there's a refresh UI, but you're going to see a new kind of green tab that says video overview.
All right.
And I only have this right now on my personal Gmail account.
So I have paid accounts on my personal Gmail.
And then on my work workspace account, I don't have it yet.
So I don't know if they're going to roll this out.
It's all workspace accounts, but let's keep that in mind.
All right.
So I'm going to now click the video overview button, but I'm going to click customize.
All right.
Some more on this later.
Okay.
So I already have this ready to go.
And I'm going to say, I said research analyst.
All right.
So I'm going to give this.
I'm going to let this go.
All right.
And then I'm going to explain what we put here in this prompt.
So I customize the video overview.
I said,
compile the top five hot, top five AI hot takes on the future of work based on the sources.
All right.
And then I'm going to, and then I said personalize this for research analysts.
I said, keep the video overview short, specific, and actionable.
Try and use a bit of humor where appropriate.
Use as many visuals from my presentation as possible.
More on that here in a second.
And then I said pull out pinpoint specific and valuable insights in a
avoid generalities.
All right.
So let's jump back into the work, the notebook here.
And I do, I don't know if this is going to be done because I did a couple of tests on this.
And I don't know if it's because it's brand new.
Obviously, this creates a video podcast with visuals.
So it takes longer.
So if you've done the very popular and viral audio overviews inside of notebook LM,
you know, depending on the amount of content, if you personalize it or not, it could take
anywhere from, you know, three to six minutes to generate an audio podcast. The video
overviews take much longer. So I've done a couple of them so far. They've taken anywhere
from 15 to 30 minutes. So I don't know if we're going to be able to check in on this one at
the end. I did already do this minus that personalization for a, what was it, a research analyst.
All right. So what I have here inside of notebook LM, on the left hand side, I have all of my
sources and I'm going to be breaking down how this works here in a minute. Don't worry.
So what I uploaded as my sources is I uploaded a bunch of PDFs of different keynotes that I've done,
all right, and training. So I do a lot of keynote speaking. Actually just did a pretty fun one last
week here in Chicago at Microsoft's office downtown for Chicago Tech Week. So I have that in there.
I have a couple trainings that I've done. So I have a bunch of keynotes with visuals that are
PDFs and that's important and hopefully we'll be able to see why at the end.
And then I also uploaded some, just the websites of some recent episodes I've done
from the everyday AI website, kind of future of work episodes, Chad GPT episodes,
etc.
So I have about a dozen different sources that it's pulling this information from.
All right.
Are we all on the same page?
And if you do have questions, live stream audience, please get them in.
podcast audience, FYI, I always put my, my LinkedIn and our email address in the show notes.
So if you're listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, make sure to check out the show notes.
So if you do have any questions, please feel free to reach out.
Sometimes it takes me a minute to get to everyone, but I do eventually.
All right.
Now, let's get back and talk a little bit exactly what's new and why it matters.
So the biggest thing that's grabbing the headlines is obviously the video overviews.
So the audio overviews, right?
They've been very popular, very viral for the last six months.
Notebook L.M, I think, is one of the most underutilized and least talked about AI tools out there.
It's by Google.
It's a little different than Google Gemini.
And there's a lot of similarities, but I'm going to break that down here in a minute.
But the biggest thing here, you know, the audio overviews where you can upload all your information
and you have these two very realistic kind of AI voices, do a podcast and they kind of riff on all your content.
Very cool. But now this is the video version of that. There's some differences. The voices,
so let me start picking this apart. What's not the same? The voices are different. Not that that
matters, right? But I think it's important to know because, you know, a lot of people have flooded,
you know, podcast, platform, social media, YouTube, et cetera, with the notebook LM content and voices.
So you always want to know what's real and what's fake. So these are different voices. They're
kind of the same in video overviews, at least in my test so far, you only get one voice.
There's one male voice, one female voice.
Again, different than the ones that are in the audio overviews, but you don't have two
different kind of hosts, you know, going back and forth in the video overview.
It's more of a presentation style.
All right.
Also, it can pull information and visuals out from your documents, which is huge.
Okay.
I've only had it pull out information from my PDFs.
I haven't had it pull out information.
from websites, right?
So if you put a website in there,
but that's pretty impressive
and something I think you can't overlook.
It's customizable as well.
You know, as an example, you can,
if you do the video overview,
you can click those three dots,
click customize, and tell it anything.
You know, you can say, hey, I'm an expert in X.
I want to know more about why.
And here's, you know, my company does Z,
which is very cool, right?
When the first audio overviews came out,
you weren't able to customize them.
They did eventually allow you to customize audio overviews.
So it's pretty cool to see that the first iteration of the video overviews,
you can customize them by default.
And that's huge.
So you can tailor it for specific topics, audiences, learning goals for your team,
et cetera.
Another new thing.
So you have this new updated studio on the right hand side.
So our live stream audience saw this.
And hey, FYI, a lot of people asked this,
because people watch or listen or probably listen on the YouTube podcast.
I don't know why it separates it.
So you can always watch the video on the actual YouTube live or on our website
if you want to see this.
But the notebook LM essentially has three different panes or panels, right?
So on the left side, you have your sources.
On the middle, that's where you can chat with all your sources.
And now on the right side, you have this new revamped studio.
And that's where you're going to see the video overviews.
But there's a couple of new other things as well.
So now there's a reports tab that has briefing, docs, study guides, FAQs, and timelines.
You have your mind maps, you have your audio overviews, and you have your video overviews.
One of the other biggest things that's actually huge is now you can create multiple versions of any of those things, which is actually a big deal.
So previously, you know, you could put in all your content in a notebook and do an audio overview and not customize it.
And then you're like, oh, man, I should have customized this.
Or maybe you add up adding more sources.
Or maybe you just weren't happy with how the audio overview turned out.
So now you can create multiple of them, which is really cool.
The other thing that's new inside of this new studio UI on the right hand side is you can multitask.
I love that.
So you can listen to an audio overview as an example.
And then at the same time, use the reports tab, you know, bring up a study guide and
FAQ and you can interact with those other elements of the studio while also listening to the
audio overview. So very cool. You can generate multiple audio overviews, multiple video overviews,
and also multitask. You can interact with those while interacting with other elements,
the mind map, the briefing doc, study guide, FAQ timeline, etc. All right. Also, the other thing,
why it's, I think, important to be able to generate multiple things as well, what if your team
is an international team, right? And you throw in, maybe you've, you know, are onboarding people
from a bunch of different companies. Maybe you're an HR. And let's say you have a strong presence
in South America and North America, right? You can now create multiple versions of this. So let's say
you're onboarding people in marketing and your onboarding.
people in finance at the same time from North America and South America. You could personalize this
in four different ways. You could have, you know, marketing for English, marketing for Spanish,
and then you could have finance version for English and finance version for Spanish. And then you
could download those or share these as well, because you can share these notebooks with your team
as long as they all have the same email address if you are using a workspace account.
once this is available to workspaces.
So pretty small, like people aren't really talking about that update because the videos are
really good.
So everyone's talking about the video overviews, I think rightfully so.
But that's some low key, big updates that I think is really going to increase the utility of
notebook LM.
As if we needed it to like have more utility.
Because like I said, this, we named notebook LM our kind of AI tool or feature of the year.
for 2024.
So again, this is something I personally use all the time.
I know our audience loves it.
And you know, you told us so even in our poll yesterday in our newsletter.
A couple other updates under the hood.
And we're going to get back.
And if you do have questions, please let me know.
And we're going to get back and check on our results, see if they're done.
So the streamlined studio panel, it's just the user interface is just a little better.
You know, it's easier to work in there, saves time and boost productivity.
the multitasking support, which, like I talked about, the ability to listen to audio while
exploring other formats and also faster knowledge sharing.
So better onboarding for your team, training global collaboration with the visual summaries.
All right.
So if you are brand new to NoBook LM or if you're a little confused, what's the difference
between NoBook LM and Google Gemini or other large language models like Chad GPT?
All right.
I'm going to break this down in a very simple way because some people are confused and I get it.
And you're like, wait, what's this notebook LM?
It's Google?
It's powered by Google Gemini.
Like, what's the point?
What's the difference?
Why would I use notebook LM versus Google Gemini versus Chad GPD?
Here's the big difference.
Notebook LM is grounded in your data only.
Here's what that means.
And I'm going to give an example.
Okay.
So in my example, I,
I just uploaded a bunch of keynote presentations, training documents, and websites for your everyday AI.
All right.
So if I go into notebook L.M and I ask it, what are the top five pizza places in Chicago?
No book L.M is going to spit it out and say, I don't know.
This is not in my documents.
This is not in my sources.
I can't answer that.
right if i go into google gemini or chat gpti and i upload the same documents in a project
custom gpte etc and i ask it what are the top five pizza places in chicago it's going to
respond so that's the difference notebook lm is grounded it's only going to work off of the source
information that you give it all right and that's very important all right uh so now let's get to
five pieces of practical advice.
And good thing, I'm keeping my eye on our video overview and it actually finished, right?
So that wasn't bad.
Only about, I'm trying to do the math here, maybe about 10 minutes.
So pretty fast.
Maybe last night they were just getting a little, a little slammed.
So here are my five practical pieces of advice for everyday business professionals,
how you can use notebook LN better to grow your company in your career.
Number one, we've kind of already referenced these a little bit, but creating multiple assets is huge, right?
In this example where, you know, I'm personalizing this for a research analyst.
And essentially, I'm using my content to create a video overview on certain AI trends and hot takes based on my content.
But I'm doing it for a research analyst.
I can do this for 50 different types of people, multiple languages, doing multiple
versions of the video overview, multiple versions of the audio overview.
I mean, this is something I'm probably going to start to do, right?
I feel I should, you know, be like every day, I could take or maybe once a week,
take our top podcasts and personalize it for people in marketing, people in sales,
people in HR, et cetera, right?
I don't have time to personally go through and do that.
But with a tool like this and the results are pretty good, as we'll see here in a second,
that is a huge benefit.
Number two, multitasking.
All right.
I don't know about you, but I stink at learning outside of my comfort zone, if that makes sense.
The way I like to learn is a combination of visuals, audio, and on 2X, right?
It's probably bad on me.
I stink learning live.
you know, I've kind of trained my brain to want to be able to consume content quickly,
but I need audios and I need visuals, right?
Which as much as I love Notebook LM, their audio overviews, sometimes it was hard for me.
And I'm like, okay, what am I staring at?
And then my eyes would easily get distracted, right?
All studies show, right, the combination of audio and visuals are going to be your best
learning mechanism.
So being able to both see the video and interact with other content at the same time,
you should be doing that.
It's going to help things stick.
So think whether you're trying to learn something new in your industry, whether your
company's making some changes and you want a more personalized or entertaining or
interactive way to learn it, you can do that.
But also you can interact with those content, with the content as well.
You can ask questions as you're listening and watching the
video overview. It is a real boost to be able to multitask.
The third one, being able to create multiple and unlimited versions.
Y'all, you need to be doing this. You need to be doing this, right?
Again, I'm using this HR onboarding as an example.
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firefly.adobie.com. I can almost guarantee you. Your onboarding is probably boring, right? It is not
highly personalized, right? If you're doing an onboarding session for 100 new hires, let's just say,
you can't personalize that. Now you can. You can break this down. Let's say there's,
you know, eight different departments that these 100 new hires are in. You can personalize this,
right for their specific information right um the other thing that i didn't mention as well is you can
and why like have the ability to create unlimited versions is pretty big is you can toggle sources
so let's say you have 20 different sources in there and maybe for your marketing team only 12
of those sources are relevant so you can just highlight those 12 and then you can create a video
overview and then for your sales team maybe 18 of those sources are relevant so again another way to
be able to create custom, unlimited versions that are highly specific and solve a real need.
Number four, multiple languages.
So you can obviously better connect with team members.
If you have clients, potential clients in other countries, I can see people using this
almost as like a pitch deck, right?
Especially if, you know, you're working with a company that has a global footprint and you want to be able to interface with them.
right. This is something I run into pretty frequently, right? We train companies that have a footprint
across Europe, South America, Australia, right? But sometimes there is a little bit of a language
barrier. And for to be able to create this in different languages is actually huge.
I actually don't know what's going on. My video overview had just said that it was done.
Now it says it's not, but I have my other one done and ready to go.
So we'll see if it finishes here in the next two minutes.
And then number five, being able to pull visuals from your uploaded docs.
That's big, right?
These videos being able to pull information from your PDFs, your visuals, and it can
create visuals on its own too.
So it's not going to have the same exact look and feel of the, you know, PDFs that you
upload.
But it's going to be familiar enough, right?
And in my experience, it does a pretty good job weaving together the video overviews,
weaving together a very strong narrative that tells a great story and then also interjecting
with your own visuals.
That's big.
All right.
Let's go ahead.
Let's check back.
Let's check back, shall we?
Actually, I'm going to give it another minute.
Let me see if we have any questions here.
he said she created one yesterday to do an overview of my digital marketing class syllabus the audio
was way better than the video video was a little glitchy yeah i've done i've done a couple tests so
far uh i've had a couple that the uh the video was great i've had somewhere it's a little glitchy
same thing uh let's see any any other questions i don't think so okay uh robert what's up robert
robert says multilingual onboarding and training videos are very cool great time saver
Gavin from YouTube asking, is it comparable to a local model in the sense of needing to train the model yourself?
So you're not really training the model.
So it does use Gemini 2.5 Flash.
So it uses Google Gemini's model, a very fast and capable model in a hybrid model as well.
So we can think and reason.
It is the flash version.
So it's fast.
So you're never going to be waiting two or three minutes for a response from Notebook L.M.
So yeah, you're actually getting the advantage of using one of the most powerful models in the world that powers it, but it is grounded in just your data.
All right, Joe says I can envision this as a lead magnet or pre-sales tool personalized by industry or even client business.
Yeah, both.
Probably personalize it via both.
So great, great call out there, Joe.
All right, let's go ahead.
Let's check in live.
It looks like, unfortunately, even though a.
couple of minutes ago it said it was done uh it doesn't look like it's done wait did it did it just
finish sometimes fyi if you're waiting a while sometimes i refresh my browser and then it shows it as
being done uh but it looks like in this case all right we're going to have to check check that one out
in the newsletter all right so let's go ahead and i did have one already done all right so let's
check this one out um and live stream audience if you could let me know if you can hear the audio that
be great. So again, this is the exact same thing, except this version is not personalized.
Everything else is the exact same. I was hoping it would be able to finish in the, you know,
15 or so minutes. But hey, we got to wrap this. We can't let this one go on for hours.
So you'll see here. Again, we have our three different panels. You can collapse the left hand
panel for your sources, FYI. You can also collapse the studio panel.
In this case, I don't want to.
So you'll see right here now we have our video overview.
You can go click the more button.
You can rename it.
You can download it.
You can share it.
But if you are on a workspace plan, you can only, I believe, share it in a collaborative
nature with people that are on the same workspace account.
And then you can delete it as well.
So again, if I were to create multiple versions of this, they're all going to show up here
on the right hand side in the studio.
So I'm going to go ahead, click the play button.
all right uh and then i'm going to expand this uh to full screen all right so uh live stream
audience please let me know if you can hear this but for our podcast audience uh we have a video
here it's ready to go has a real real cool and everything f i i it is notebook lm branded
on every single slide you're going to see a little notebook lm fyi um and yeah let's go ahead
we're going to listen to a minute or two of this but a really cool cover slide
It gave it a title.
It said top five AI hot takes on the future of work.
A little robot, cool, cool designs.
The design's very minimalistic, but very clean.
The designs are very clean, which I like.
It's not super clunky.
All right, live to your audience.
I'm hit and play.
Let me know if you can hear.
Hey, everyone and welcome.
So let's be real.
If your feet is anything like mine,
it is just a constant fire hose of AI news, AI promises,
and honestly, a little bit of AI panic.
Today, we're going to cut through all that noise.
We've got five provocative, maybe even a little controversial, hot takes on how AI is really changing the future of work.
So, yeah, let's just dive right in.
I mean, you're hearing it from the absolute top.
You've got tech leaders, like the CEO of Nvidia, basically declaring that the age of agentic AI has arrived.
Okay, I'm going to pause this.
I think live stream bodies can hear this.
So what happened here is on the second kind of slide, it actually pulled.
a screenshot from one of my presentations that I gave last week. So FYI, that's what's happening here,
but then it added its own design elements. So pretty cool. Let's go ahead and listen to another
maybe 90 seconds. We're talking about AI that's designed to think, to plan, and to act all
on its own. The message is pretty clear. The hype train has left the station. But is everyone
on that train selling real gold. Well, this is where things get.
interesting. Because what if a lot of what you're seeing, as impressive as it is, isn't really
agentic at all? What if it's more like a really, really clever magic trick? And that brings us
right to our very first hot tape. Okay, I know, I know. That is a huge claim. But the term AI
agent has become the hottest buzzword in tech. And it's created this epidemic of agent washing.
And when you look at the actual numbers, it's kind of stabbering.
So let's not just read the slide.
Let's talk about what this really means.
Gartner looked into this and found this massive disconnect.
Why?
Well, because most companies are just slapping the AI agent label on what are basically just slick automations.
You know, think of it this way.
All right.
So we went through about a minute and a half.
If I'm going to share the personalized version of this in the newsletter.
that you can go listen to or download or watch.
And we'll see how similar it is to this non-personalized version.
But for our podcast audience, the design is actually really clean.
So Jackie did point out here that there is a slight jump or glitch between slides.
Sometimes I'm seeing that.
Sometimes I'm not.
FYI.
And Ruth here, great observation says, great, good script,
and dramatic pause for the win.
Joe says he's already intrigued, right?
Like, I like this.
I'm probably going to be doing this all the time
and just dump a lot of my better podcast episodes in
and just use this almost for myself to learn
and remind myself.
I know that sounds weird.
One of my biggest issues I face,
and hey, we're talking about putting AI to work for,
for you on Wednesday.
I forget a lot, right?
I do this every single day.
Sometimes, you know,
there'll be a great, you know, point that a guest made a couple of months ago that I might
forget or because I'm doing so many shows myself, I might forget a certain stat, something like
that. So I'm probably going to be using this a lot just to ideate and to continue to learn
the content that I'm already out there, you know, putting out into the world. So very, from a design
perspective, again, what they did here, a little screenshot of something from one of my presentations,
and then a nice animation and additional kind of visuals that they created as well.
So it's not just, you know, a sloppy pulling things from your documents.
They actually do a good job at incorporating their design and your design.
And then there's instances.
I'm going to fast forward here a little bit where they just will do.
Let me see here.
I want to be able to show.
Obviously, I'm getting some buffering issue here.
Here are tools that the AI can hang on.
Okay.
So here we go.
Here's an example where it just.
pulls out, this isn't a quote. It says AI can now create editable PowerPoint slides and Excel
spreadsheets without a Microsoft office license. And it highlighted PowerPoint and Excel. That's not a
direct quote, but that is from a transcript and it put a nice design with some emojis, right?
So it does a really good job. It can also, it does create its own charts, its own graphs. Here's
another one where it broke down. It even reframed a lot of the content that I originally built.
So overall, really good.
So let's wrap this one up.
And again, if you want to see the personalized version,
we're going to be sharing that in the newsletter today.
But as we wrap, what's new?
Video overviews.
They're, I think, extremely impressive and are not just going to change the way that
you can learn and personalize, but I think the way that we're going to interact with
others as well, right?
Imagine instead of sending someone an email, a long email, or a bunch of power,
points or, you know, old videos that your company produced three years ago, imagine instead sending
them something highly personalized, highly engaging that just feels right to them. I think that this new
video overview solves so many problems and it opens up so many opportunities for how we can
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