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Elton Jones

What Is NotebookLM? Here’s what Google’s AI research and note-taking tool can do for you

Google NotebookLM welcome screen.

For those of you who interact with AI chatbots daily, we’re sure you use them as a tool to aid you in studying and researching.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and other similar AI models are known for providing the information you seek when you present them with questions about whatever topics you’re most focused on. Google offers something a bit more reliable when it comes to doing proper research on subjects both big and small. NotebookLM, which was originally codenamed “Project Tailwind,” is the tech giant’s signature AI-powered research and note-taking assistant. Not only does it search the web for legit sources of information, but it also lifts data from the documents you choose to upload.

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