Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - Ep 834: Gemini Notebook: 7 New Updates and What They Unlock

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

Not only does NotebookLM have a new name, it's got a new game. Gemini Notebook is agentic by default, can think and reason, and can output files now in just about any format. On this week'...s AI at Work on Wednesday, we show you the 7 New Updates in the new Gemini Notebook, how they work, and how you should use them. Gemini Notebook: 7 New Updates and What They Unlock -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan WilsonNewsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageToday's Episode on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders.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:Gemini Notebook Rebrand from NotebookLMSeven Major Gemini Notebook Feature UpdatesCollections for Organizing AI NotebooksAutomatic Google Drive Sync IntegrationExpanded Gemini Notebook Output FormatsAgentic Intelligence and Gemini 3.5 UpgradeSecure Cloud Computing for Each NotebookGrounded Data Responses and Web ResearchHands-On Demo: Real-World Enterprise Use CasesStudio Outputs: Infographics, Mind Maps, QuizzesMulti-Modal Asset Creation in Gemini NotebookKey Differences: NotebookLM vs. Gemini NotebookTimestamps:00:00 Gemini notebook updates released03:12 Gemini notebook new updates08:14 Notebook LM's unique features13:02 Using Gemini notebook prompts14:48 Discussing Gemini notebook features18:01 Enhanced Gemini notebook flexibility23:02 Creating quizzes with Gemini notebook26:30 Limitations of AI-generated responses29:04 Gemini notebook's new capabilities30:51 Episode wrap-up and subscription pitchKeywords: Gemini Notebook, Gemini notebooks, NotebookLM, Notebook LM, Google Gemini, AI updates, Gemini 3.5, anti gravity agentic search, Google Drive syncing, cloud computer, agentic intelligence, AI agent, secured cloud sandbox, personalized AI, output formats, PDFs, PNGs, documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, markdown files, charts, images, live demo, long form content, content grounding, hallucination reduction, source pane, chat pane, studio pane, multimedia assets, Nano Banana, Google's audio model, cinematic video, Google's VO model, chain of thought, skill creation, codex skill, browser control, agentic harness, pricing evidence, Luna and Terra pricing, sensitivity analysis, recommendation dashboard, AI budget calculator, mind map, infographics, quizzes, RSI maturity ladder, recursive self improvement, executive decision brief, Excel calculator, agentic workflows, web search integration, grounded AI, model architecture, frontend models, tiered architecture, adaptability to price reductions, vendor risk, human review time, latency, agentic co-worker, artifact creation, editable Excel workbook, multi-output prompting, token efficiency.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Ready for ROI on GenAI? Go to youreverydayai.com/partner 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the Everyday AI show, the Everyday Podcast where we simplify AI and bring its power to your fingertips. Listen daily for practical advice to boost your career, business, and everyday life. How long has it been since we featured Notebook L.M on this show? Apparently, so long, well, it isn't even called Notebook L.M. It has a new name. Yes, the tool once known as Notebook L.M is no more. But don't worry, one of my favorite AI tools ever, did. go to the Google Graveyard, it actually just graduated and got upgraded into the official
Starting point is 00:00:39 Gemini lineup and is now called Gemini Notebooks. But the name isn't the only thing that's new. That's because over the last month or so, the team at Google has rolled out a bunch of new features that legit supercharged Gemini Notebooks and make it agentic by default, which sounds really cool in all, but well, why haven't we been talking about it? Because many of those upgrades were only for users on the expensive Ultra plan. But this past week, that changed. Now, the updates that have completely changed the face of Gemini Notebook are available to all paid users.
Starting point is 00:01:14 And that's why we're going to be showcasing the seven most important updates today as we put AI to work on Wednesdays. All right. So on today's show, here's what you're going to learn. You're going to know why Notebook LM is no more and why Gemini Notebook might actually make more sense. You're going to know the one important grounded change that you really need to be aware of. And you're going to understand the real reason Gemini Notebook going agentic matters more than ever.
Starting point is 00:01:43 All right, let's get into it. Welcome to Everyday AI. My name is Jordan Wilson. And this thing's for you. It's your daily, unedited, unscripted, live stream podcast and free daily newsletter, helping business leaders like you and me keep up with the nonstop avalanche of AI updates. I tell you what matters, what doesn't, how to use it. And you take that information to grow your company and career.
Starting point is 00:02:01 So it starts here, but please make sure if you haven't already, please subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or Apple and make sure you go to our website at your everyday AI.com and sign up for the free deal and newsletter. We're going to be recapping the highlights from today's show in case you miss anything, as well as all of the other AI news and developments that you need to know. All right. So let's talk at Gemini notebooks. Yeah, notebook L.M is no more. So sad. Right. But it's not gone. It just got a facelift, both on the Xenobloft, both on the Xenoblox. exterior and a lot going on under the hood as well. And this is one of those things. I think over the last couple of years, a lot of people were kind of nervous because Google has done this before where
Starting point is 00:02:41 they've come out with great products, right? And this isn't just in the AI age and the pre AI phase, maybe even more. They've come out with very popular products that a lot of people love, almost built like a cult like following and then they end up killing those products. So a lot of people were very nervous over the last couple of years as notebook L.M almost seemed like this side question. that was legit amazing, right? No joke. I think we named it like our AI tool of the year in 2024 and 2025. So a lot of people were worried like, hey, don't take this away. It's very,
Starting point is 00:03:13 it's very unique because there's no, you know, the other competitors, you know, no one from Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, you know, X, GROC, meta, like no one else has something like Nobke-LM that really just grounds its outputs in your data only. So, Luckily, they didn't get rid of it. And it seems like, if anything, Gemini notebook is going to be along for the long run. So let's quickly go over and not going to make you wait. Here's the seven new updates to Gemini notebook. I'm going to be going over them pretty quickly now.
Starting point is 00:03:47 And we're going to be doing some live demos. So you can see these seven updates in action. And then we're done with the live demos. I'll come back and talk about these things a little bit more. So number one, new update already talked about it. Gemini notebook is the new name. That's number one. Number two, there's something called the collections.
Starting point is 00:04:01 That's a way for you to organize notebooks for easier sorting. Number three, and this one's actually really cool. Now there's automatic Google Drive syncing. All right. Number four, bringing the Gemini and search access. So your personal notebooks can now be accessed inside of Gemini and soon inside of Google Searches AI mode, which will be really handy. Number five, new output formats.
Starting point is 00:04:27 So yeah, no longer constrained to only what notebook I'm offered now Gemini notebook. You can create PDFs, PNGs, documents, spreadsheets, PowerPoints, markdown files, charts, and images. Number six, technically each notebook has its own secure cloud computer, which is really cool. Number seven, just more agentic intelligence. And that's probably the biggest upgrade that we're going to see in Gemini notebook.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Now powered by Gemini 3.5 reasoning and Google's anti-gravity agentic search. All right. So let's do it. Let's take a look live. Shall we? What could go wrong? I'm going to share my screen, live stream, audience.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Do me a favor. Let me know if you can see. All right. So what I did here is I took all of my notes from yesterday's show. Had a lot of them. So yesterday's show was kind of on RSI recursive self-improvement. I have all of my notes together. And this is something I routinely do inside of notebook LM.
Starting point is 00:05:26 I still use notebook LM almost every single day. Sometimes I'll technically see. spend like hours inside of notebook. Elam just depends on what I'm preparing for. But to make this a little faster, I essentially just created the same version of this notebook inside of Gemini notebook. I'm going to probably call it the wrong thing like five times. And then I have some prompts ready to go.
Starting point is 00:05:49 So for our podcast audience, FYI, our AI at work on Wednesday show, it's always a hands-on demo. Sometimes it's a little more visual. Sometimes it's not. But you can always watch the video version. version of this on our website at your everyday AI.com. And in the podcast show notes, we always leave a link to today's episode. All right.
Starting point is 00:06:08 So here we go. I'm going to go ahead and enter these prompts. We'll probably check on them a little bit as they go, talk a little bit more about these seven new features. And then we'll come back at the end and take a look. All right. So I'm just going to get these started so everyone can see, yes, these are going in real time. All right.
Starting point is 00:06:28 So there's my first one that I sent. there's my second one, there's my third one, and there is my fourth one. All right. So a little bit about the content in here. It is long form content. I think it was like probably 60 pages of notes that I had for the show on recursive self-improvement. And if you want to go listen to that, like I said, that's yesterday's episode,
Starting point is 00:06:55 episode 833. All right, where we talked about RSI explained, when AI starts improving itself and what it means. So essentially, I have these four different duplicate notebooks that I just started going, and I'll kind of read the different prompts. Some of them I'll read in full because it's actually going to show us, you know, some of these new features that were really pushing Gemini notebook on, well, just number one, see if they work.
Starting point is 00:07:19 The first one, I think, will be pretty relevant to a lot of us. And I want you to also think, as I'm going through these demos, think of your use cases, right and probably before i do this i'm going to give the quick like 60 second overview of notebook lm sorry if this is uh you know um a rerun for you uh right but i think it's important to just set that so the biggest thing is notebook or sorry Gemini uh Gemini notebook just doesn't sound right all right there's essentially three different paints there's your source pain on the left hand side there's your chat pain in the middle and then on the right hand side is your studio pain where you can create different kind of artifacts and outputs so for your sources um
Starting point is 00:07:58 In my example, I just copied and paste, but there's different ways you can add sources. You can upload files, you know, PDFs, images, docs, audios. You can put in websites and YouTube videos. You can auto sync now your Google Drive files, which is really helpful. And then, like I said, copy and paste text. Or there's kind of like a quick, fast research and deep research at the top. So number one, you're going to get your sources. And this is where the big difference in Notebook LM comes because when you're chatting in the middle,
Starting point is 00:08:28 Everything that you ask is going to be grounded in that information. And that's the biggest difference in I think what makes Gemini notebook really special and much different. Because for all other large language models, right, they're going to use a combination of number one, the files you upload just like Gemini notebook. But number two, training data, right, which could be a good or bad thing. Right. Sometimes training data isn't always the best. Sometimes it is. And then last but not least, you know, large language models now by default all connect to the internet.
Starting point is 00:08:56 So the big difference with Gemini Notebook is it's going to ground those chat responses in the middle in just your sources, which cuts down on your hallucinations by an order of magnitude through the roof. All right. So that's it. And then you can chat in the middle with your sources. They're going to output there. But then on the right hand side, you can create a bunch of different multimedia assets in the studio, audio overview, slide decks, video overview, mind maps, reports, flashcards, quizzes, infographics, and data tables. And we've actually done dedicated shows on some of these before, on the videos, I think the infographics, right? But essentially, you have some of the best of Google's AI products baked into the studio right here.
Starting point is 00:09:38 You know, as an example, the visuals are created by Nanobanana. You know, the audio overview is created by Google's audio model. Some of the video, you know, you can also customize these things. So there's like a cinematic video as an example, and that uses elements of Google's VO model, video model. So essentially, without even really knowing it, you can just click one button and use a lot of different of Google's, you know, different models. All right. So let me just quickly read some of these prompts here just so we can understand exactly what's going on, working with this long, chunky data on recursive self-improvement. And one thing I will let you know,
Starting point is 00:10:15 it's already been three minutes, right? And my first prompt is still working, right? And it's not even nearly done. And that's important because, you know, one of the big stuff, here is this is now powered by Gemini 3.5 and the anti-gravity harness, right? So what that means is before, you know, notebook LM, and I can say that because before it was notebook LM, it wasn't truly agentic in nature, at least not in the way that it is now, right? Some of those new updates that I talked about was it has a secure cloud computer. So what that means is that each notebook can write an execute code for research,
Starting point is 00:10:50 calculations, and data analysis. And then this first prompt, that's exactly what I'm having to do. Aside from having it to create custom outputs, it's also having to under the hood do a lot of that. So here's the first prompt, what I said. I said, using this notebook and its sources, create a personalized AI budget decision package for a non-technical CFO and CIO at a 5,000 person enterprise whose agent usage is growing rapidly. Do not ask me questions, make reasonable assumptions, state them clearly, and complete the entire task in one run. I'm saying first analyze three strategies. Number one, use frontier models for every workflow.
Starting point is 00:11:27 Number two, use the cheapest available model for every workflow. Number three, use a tiered architecture in which a frontier model plans, a cheaper model executes, and an independent systems evaluates. Then I'm saying compare them using total costs, successful task rate, retries, human review time, latency, vendor risk, and adaptability to future price reductions. Use the Luna and Terra pricing evidence from the notebook, run the necessary calculations, and select one strategy. Explain why the alternatives lose, identify the strongest counterargument in state what future evidence. Oh, just put me to the bottom and state what future, where did I lose?
Starting point is 00:12:10 There we go. What future evidence would change the recommendation. Then generate these five outputs concurrently. Number one, a customized audio overview presented as a CFO, CIO discussion that reaches a clear decision. Number two, a mind map connecting price changes, agent usage, model routing, evaluation, human review, and total costs. Number three, an editable Excel workbook with assumptions, formulas, three scenarios, sensitivity analysis, and a recommendation dashboard. Number four, a nanobanoured 16 by 9 infographic titled, Cheaper AI, bigger AI. budget question mark that explains the selected strategy visually and number five a two-page
Starting point is 00:12:53 pdf executive decision brief containing the recommendation supporting evidence rejected alternatives risks and next three actions all right so you can see yeah kind of a beefy prompt there but you can probably already start to imagine how something like this new jemini notebook would be valuable for your use case right one of the important things to keep in mind about Gemini Notebook is the output studio now is you can just use it with prompts, right? So now you can see how a single prompt can do a lot of heavy lifting versus having to go into, right, all of these studio assets individually and trying to build them, which is great. Because what you could actually do, right, starting to, you know, bridge in other terminology
Starting point is 00:13:39 and strategies from other, you know, LLMs as well, you can create skills, right? I actually have a codex skill that does something like this for me. It will go and, you know, according to my, you know, needs and personalization and customization, it will just literally control my browser. It will go in and do all of these kind of things for me. And you can see how it's going to have a much higher success rate and just be way more token efficient for codex,
Starting point is 00:14:11 you know, using browser use or computer use to go in and do this. When I can just throw that big prompt, in the chat, knowing now that Gemini notebook runs agentically, it has its own cloud computer, whereas before, to get this kind of personalized output, multiple, you know, artifacts, it would have taken a lot of work, right, if I was to just hand this over to an agent. So now that you really just have a much stronger harness, right, this is Gemini 3.5, using the anti-gravity engine underneath, right? Now the capabilities are just much, much higher. All right. So technically it's still working. It's still creating one of the audio
Starting point is 00:14:52 overviews. But the actual chat completion now is done. So I'm not going to go through this too much in length, but I do want to describe, especially for our podcast audience, kind of what went on here. So I should have timed this, but it looks like it took about five or six minutes. And one thing I actually like about Gemini notebook that's better than other aspects of Gemini. It actually has a decent chain of thought, which is nice, right? Because that's one thing that I think Google and Gemini is really lacking in compared to OpenAI and Anthropic is being able to see what's actually going on under the hood. So little cheat code for you there. Gemini notebook is actually probably better than the default Gemini in terms of knowing and learning what's going
Starting point is 00:15:37 on in other hood. So, you know, I'm not going to read all of the chain of thought because it's a lot, but you can go try this yourself, you know, click thoughts and see what's going on there. But it's developing budgeting solutions, it's evaluating the AI strategies, analyzing the model costs. You know, it's retrieving some instructions, analyzing strategies, analyzing pricing, right? So I can go through and see exactly what it's doing. And I'm looking at some of these things. I can see that it's creating, you know, creating different files. So it's running some code.
Starting point is 00:16:05 So, you know, it's executing code in there in its dedicated sandbox. So this was not possible a week ago. So the output here, I'm not going to read it because it's fairly long, but I'll read the beginning. So it says executive AI budget decision package. This package is designed for the CFO and CIO of our 5,000 person enterprise to address rapidly growing AI agent usage. Below, we analyze three potential model procurement strategies and delivered five unified synchronized outputs to drive your strategic budgeting decision. All right. So we'll see here, I'm not going to look at this, but it is exhaustive, right? And the good thing is all of this is sourced as well. So, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:44 it's saying, you know, workflow tokens, you know, for planning, you know, using 20,000 input, 2,000 output, I can hover over that and see exactly where it's pulling that from in my notes. So, you know, when I'm looking over the different strategies here, it did a pretty good job putting together three different strategies. One strategy one was using frontier models only. Strategy two was using cheat models only. And then strategy three was a tiered architecture using a combination of both. And then it went through and, you know, went through and did these kinds of.
Starting point is 00:17:14 of combined monthly system costs, right? And, you know, what's kind of cool in this scenario is the tiered architecture, right, which is kind of using the stronger model as an orchestrator, at least according to its calculations. That was actually going to be better, right, than just doing the cheap only. The cheap only was actually going to be more expensive, presumably because it was going to go through a lot more tokens and more monthly human review rework costs, right? So It's such a cool tool to put together. All right, but then let's look over at our right-hand side in our panel and see what was actually created.
Starting point is 00:17:52 So we did ask specifically for five different deliverables. We asked for a customized five-minute audio overview, which is almost done. Number two, we asked for a mind map connecting pricing changes. We asked for an editable Excel workbook. We asked for a nanobanated 16 by 9 infographic and a two-page PDF. So so many of these new, so many of these things, again, we're not available last week. You know, you really had to stay in this kind of confined output of what notebook LM offered, but now with Gemini notebook, right? It's really flexible.
Starting point is 00:18:28 And that is actually really helpful, both from what you can do in the middle pane because you don't have to be as rigid, right? But in my use case, right, if you really want to have agents working for you, I think this makes it so much easier for a, you know, clawed desktop or a, you know, a codex desktop, you know, an agent living, you know, on your desktop that can control your browser. This is going to allow it to iterate and create much more valuable outputs for you, right? I always want to encourage listeners of our show, even if you're a beginner, right? We have to get out of the prompting phase, right? We have to be able to give these desktop agents as much context and as much information about what we need. Then let them go do the work and I'll usually have another, you know, AI agent audit their work and make sure it, you know, cracks any mistakes
Starting point is 00:19:12 that it sees. But in this scenario, right, if I were to do this manually, even inside NobuCalM, it would have taken me three to five times longer. But that's just because of the new harness. So let's just quickly take a look at all of our other sources. So here we have our AI budget model. All right. So downloaded an Excel file. I'm just going to screenshot this here. Let's do that versus having to unshare and reshare my screen. Let's see. It's uploading. It's uploading. Gosh, let's see. All right.
Starting point is 00:19:48 That one, let me try that again. The actual Excel sheet looks great. We have our budget model. Let's see if we can get that again here. Let's copy this, shall we? All right, here we go. There we go. We got it here.
Starting point is 00:20:07 So we got a working financial model, right? I just quickly checked the spreadsheet. gave me an XLS, open it in Excel, everything's working, right? It gave me exactly what I wanted. It gave me my different three strategies. It mapped out the cost. I can go in and change the formulas. There's a little graphics, a little dashboard.
Starting point is 00:20:29 It created exactly what I wanted. It works. Is it the most beautiful spreadsheet ever? No. Is it something better than I could have done? Absolutely. Right. I love working in spreadsheets, but I'm not necessarily the best at creating formulas.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Right. So again, just think of it. of all of the unlocks that something like this brings. All right. So that was our AI budget model, did a good job. Then we asked for a two-page PDF that gives an executive decision brief. All right. So now here we go.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Live stream audience can see, but we have a two-page executive brief. This is the AI portfolio optimization, the implementing a tiered model architecture for the 5,000 person enterprise company. There we go. This is, you know, just kind of a PDF version of what we created inside the middle pain chat. as well as why, you know, what the best strategy was and the counter arguments for those. So perfect.
Starting point is 00:21:20 It created that. Let's look at the other ones. We have our mind map. Okay. So here we have our RSI here. Then we have the economic shifts in pricing, the tiered agentic architecture, governance and control and monthly system cost scenarios. And then I can click those out and explore a little bit more in each of those.
Starting point is 00:21:41 There we go. All right. So mind map. Great job. All right. And then let's look at our, this should be our infographic created by Nanobanana. All right. So looks good. You know, I'm kind of, you know, quickly editing it and it looks good. The only thing I see wrong is there's a notebook LM watermark. All right. Google, we got to update that. Right. If we're trying to get rid of notebook LMLM, we got to update the watermark to Gemini notebook. But this actually looks pretty good. The 16x9 nanobanana graphic for the CFO, CIO decision maker, great. Looking at the three different strategies, it breaks down, the human cost, the model cost, the pros and the cons. Great charts and graphics did a really good job. And then last but not least, it did just finish. I'm just going to listen to. Are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI?
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Starting point is 00:23:44 All right, perfect. It created a 21-minute deep dive on self-improving AI slashes token, prices. All right. So, okay, interesting. So it even did put in the custom prompt. So that's cool. It went in, did everything correctly, right? So, hey, the demo actually worked. All right, I'm just going to quickly look at some of the other use cases just so we can see what we did. In the other notebook, I said create three quizzes of ascending difficulty focusing on a different topic from my sources. This is a good one. This was actually a Gemini notebook example prompt, which I thought was a really good idea.
Starting point is 00:24:23 If you're trying to learn something, they have this quiz module, which is really good, right? But sometimes you might really want to be intentional about how you learn things and break it off and start easier. So you can go through the paces and re-learn things as you go. So this one, it created an easy quiz. All right. Let's, should I do one question? Watch, watch me get it wrong. All right, what is the core definition of recursive self-improvement in the context of AI?
Starting point is 00:24:47 A, is it a method where humans manually rewrite every line of code to make AI faster? B, a process where an AI uses its own capabilities to design and build a more advanced version of itself. C, an AI system that is only capable of performing one specific task like Plain J. Or D, a way for AI to search the internet and summarize existing news articles better. So I know it's B. All right. So it has three different quizzes. Did a great job doing that of ascending difficulty.
Starting point is 00:25:14 All right, let's look at our next one. So for this one, I said create a five. level RSI maturity ladder. And I wanted an infographic and a PDF. So it did answer everything. This is really good. It answered everything in the chat. My PDF here, it broke down the five kind of ladders of RSI. Did a great job. And then let's look at the infographic. Cool. Yeah, this infographic actually came out a little cleaner than I thought, considering that we didn't customize anything. So yeah, we have the level one, AI assist researchers, level two, AI executes. a human design method. Level three, AI improves AI infrastructure. Level four, AI helps train or
Starting point is 00:25:53 improve another AI. And then level five, AI controls the complete improvement loop. All right, let's go. Let's look at our next one. I said using the old Luna and Terra pricing in this notebook, create an edible Excel calculator for agentic workflows. I have my Excel sheet there. I'm opening it up in another tab. Yeah, looks good. I'm checking. There's formulas. Everything's working. live perfect. All right. And then one more thing before we wrap up here that I wanted to showcase. All right. The middle is agetic now. All right. So even though it's still going to be grounded by default, I'm going to go into one of my things here and I'm going to type who won the 2016 World Series. All right. And I'm going to ask that question. So by default, it should come back to me and say, hey, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:26:46 However, I can go out and find that information. All right. So why am I bringing this up? Because that is the one important grounded change that you need to be aware of. All right. So what's interesting here, and I didn't know this, it looks like because it had already started pulling things agentically on the web, because in some of my other testing, when I did this for the first time, you know, so I just opened up another chat to show you
Starting point is 00:27:13 this. I said, who won the 2016 World Series? In this example, it says, your sources do not contain information about this. Do you want me to research this on the web? I said yes. So it looks like maybe if web research had already been activated, that it might just answer that by default. So that's an important thing to think about because previously, No Book L.M in the middle chat
Starting point is 00:27:35 was always 100% grounded in your information. So that's a big difference and a big change. So in some instances, it's a big upside. But you have to be aware of that, that, you know, you have to be able to go back and look at the chain of thought. In a lot of these prompts, it went and it was doing a lot of web research in addition to the information that I gave it, because in the prompts, I was kind of pushing it past the limitation of the sources. So this does kind of, in my opinion, change a Gemini notebook. And maybe that's good that we are getting away from the notebook LM in inserting Gemini notebook,
Starting point is 00:28:10 because there's pros and cons to that, right? like you saw in this example here because it looks like because I had already triggered the anti-gravity harness in that first prompt and then asked it information that was not in my sources. It just, well, it just responded. All right. But it did say, it says I haven't imported those sources about the 2016 World Series. Oh, wait. I looked at it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:37 I didn't read. It didn't. All right. It just said that I hadn't looked at those. Do you want me to look them up? I got ahead of myself. So yeah, I can say yes. All right.
Starting point is 00:28:47 So, all right. Scratch what I just said in the last 60 seconds that I thought because I had already activated the anti-gravity harness and it was already doing tool calls and it was going to go out and respond. I literally just didn't read it. I just saw the response and I'm like, oh my gosh, it responded. But no, me not sleeping enough. It literally said I haven't imported those sources about the 2016 World Series into your notebook yet.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Would you like me to import them first? And then I said yes. And now right now I can click and see that it's going out to grab those sources. All right, I stand corrected. So it's still important to know, though, that, you know, once you do give Gemini notebook access to, it is going to bring in information that are outside of the sources. So it does change, I think, again, for the good and the bad, but at least it does caution you or make you kind of manually approve that's saying, hey, you don't have this information
Starting point is 00:29:35 in your sources. Do you want me to go grab that information for you? All right. So that is a wrap. But to quickly recap, what do you need to know? All right. So, number one, what's the big difference here? Gemini notebook represents a shift away from just having that, you know, notebook LM, all those sources. And, you know, essentially it was a non-reasoning model that could use Google's different multimedia AI. And now it's different. Right. And I think that's the big reason for the name changes because now with the Gemini notebook, it is agentic by default, right? Having that cloud computer, being able to write and execute code, being able to, when you give
Starting point is 00:30:16 it the okay, search the web, it really changes what notebook LM was into what Gemini notebook will be in the future. You know, the important grounded change that I talked about right there, you just have to know. And I think ultimately that will be a good thing as long as you understand what's going on. And then the real reason, I think notebook, Gemini notebook going agentic matters more than ever. well, you saw just through my example. It makes it much easier to work with, right?
Starting point is 00:30:43 Before, you know, you were kind of restrained, right? You almost had to think in your mind in terms of outputs, right? You had to prompt notebook LM according to the outputs. Now those outputs are so flexible, right? Before you couldn't create PDS, before you couldn't create CSVs, right? You couldn't create markdown files. So you were much more limited in, you know, PowerPoints, right? You can do all these things now.
Starting point is 00:31:06 you know, Gemini notebook has become much more of an agentic, you know, co-worker versus what it was before. You know, there is essentially a handful of artifacts or a handful of formats, and you really had to use notebook L.M according to those outputs. Now it is extremely flexible and even more powerful than ever. And I guess that's why NoBook L.M is no more. But Gemini Notebook, at least, is here to say. And it is really good. All right. That's a wrap for today's show.
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