Users who are used to NotebookLM may need to get reacquainted with this old friend. On the 16th local time, Google announced that its AI note-taking assistant NotebookLM has been officially renamed Gemini Notebook, fully integrating it into the unified AI brand. The name has changed, but its identity hasn't been diluted—Google emphasized that it is still an independent product, but from now on, it will play a more significant role within the entire Google ecosystem, including the Gemini app and Google Search.
The real highlight lies in the capability upgrades behind the name change. Gemini Notebook users will gradually receive a key update: connecting their notebooks to secure cloud computing support. This step is like giving a quiet notebook a brain that can work—now it has native code writing and execution capabilities, allowing users to conduct complex data analysis directly based on their own data sources, without having to move the information elsewhere to start over. The notebook is no longer just a container for recording and retrieving information; it has become a workspace where computations and results can be generated on the spot.
This update is currently available first to Google AI Ultra users, as well as enterprise customers using Workspace with AI Ultra Access and AI Expanded Access. Google revealed that in the coming weeks, it will gradually cover all web-based Pro users, and at that time, it will also bring new output formats and more in-depth analytical capabilities. A seemingly ordinary name change is actually a major step forward for Google in pushing AI notebooks deeper into productivity tools.
