NotebookLM can now summarize research in ‘cinematic’ video overviews
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Google's NotebookLM now creates animated 'cinematic' videos from research notes using AI models like Gemini 3, enhancing beyond previous slideshow-style overviews.
Google's NotebookLM can now turn users' research and notes into fully animated "cinematic" videos, going a step further than the original video overview feature Google introduced last year.
Previously, video overviews could only generate narrated slideshows, but the upgraded video overview feature uses a combination of Google's AI models, "including Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro and Veo 3," to generate animated visuals based on the content of users' notes. Google says Gemini "determines the best narrative, visual style and format, and even refines its own work to ensure consistency" when generating the videos.
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