{"slug": "google-is-renaming-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook", "title": "Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook", "summary": "Google is renaming its AI note-taking app NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, the company announced Thursday. The app will remain standalone but integrate more deeply with Gemini and Google Search, and users will soon be able to access notebooks in AI Mode. The update also includes a feature that lets Gemini Notebook connect to a secure cloud computer to write and execute code, available to AI Ultra and Workspace business customers.", "body_md": "Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search.\n\n# Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook\n\nYou’ll soon be able to access your notebooks in AI Mode, too.\n\nYou’ll soon be able to access your notebooks in AI Mode, too.\n\nGoogle first revealed Gemini Notebook — [then called Project Tailwind](/2023/5/10/23718707/google-io-2023-project-tailwind-personal-ai-notebook) — in May 2023 before widely [releasing the app just months later](/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebooklm-tailwind-ai-notes). Over the past few years, Google has been adding new features to the app to help organize and make sense of your notes, such as the ability to summarize them [as AI podcasts](/2024/9/11/24242138/google-notebook-llm-ai-fake-podcasts-research), [narrated slideshows](/news/715283/google-notebooklm-video-overviews-studio-ai), and [TikTok-style clips](/tech/959778/google-notebooklm-ai-clips). It recently started [letting users connect their notebooks](/tech/909031/google-gemini-notebooks-notebooklm) to the Gemini app as well. Google says it plans to bring notebooks to AI Mode, its chatbot-like experience in Search, too.\n\nAlong with the name change, Google is rolling out an update announced last month that allows Gemini Notebook to [connect to a secure cloud computer](/tech/944325/google-notebooklm-ai-gemini-update) to write and execute code. This feature is available to Google AI Ultra and Workspace business customers, but will come to Pro users on the web “over the coming weeks.”\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-renaming-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/966112/google-gemini-notebook-notebooklm", "published_at": "2026-07-16 16:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 16:10:49.431241+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Google", "NotebookLM", "Gemini Notebook", "Gemini", "Google Search", "AI Mode", "Google AI Ultra", "Workspace"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-renaming-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-renaming-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-renaming-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-is-renaming-notebooklm-to-gemini-notebook.jsonld"}}