Google Rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook
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- Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, with the app remaining standalone but integrating more tightly across Gemini and Google Search.
- Google first previewed the tool — then called Project Tailwind — in May 2023 before releasing it widely later that year.
- Over time the app gained AI podcast summaries, narrated slideshows, and TikTok-style clips, and recently began letting users link notebooks to the Gemini app.
- Google plans to bring notebooks into AI Mode, its chatbot-like experience in Search.
- Alongside the rebrand, Google is rolling out a previously announced feature that lets Gemini Notebook connect to a secure cloud computer to write and execute code.
- The cloud code-execution feature is available now to Google AI Ultra and Workspace business customers, with Pro users on the web getting access "over the coming weeks."
Why it matters: By slotting NotebookLM under the Gemini brand, Google consolidates its AI tools under one name just as it adds a real cloud code sandbox to the app — first to AI Ultra and Workspace business customers, then to Pro web users in the coming weeks — while also preparing to surface notebooks inside Search's AI Mode.
