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NotebookLM is built to help people work with their own information. You upload a document, a lecture note, a news article, a report, or even your class notes, and the AI helps you explore and understand it better. Now, Google is adding something that feels long overdue: video summaries. If you liked the podcast feature of NotebookLM, you are going to love this one.

At this year’s Google I/O, a lot of attention went to flashy demos and big-picture AI talk. But one of the updates that actually feels grounded in how we use technology to learn is the new upgrade to NotebookLM: Google’s AI-powered learning and research tool. I’ve used NotebookLM myself a few times to simplify long PDFs, so this one caught my eye quickly.

What are Video Overviews?

Google is rolling out a new feature called Video Overviews, which will turn your documents into short, educational videos. The idea is to make it easier to understand complex content using visuals, not just words or audio. During the event, Google said this feature was built based on user feedback from people who wanted more visual cues than just text or voice.

This comes on top of NotebookLM’s existing Audio Overviews, which already work in over 80 languages. You upload a document, and the AI generates spoken summaries. Soon, users will even be able to pick how long they want the audio version to be, short and quick or long and detailed. For now, this new audio-length feature will roll out in English, then expand to more languages later.

What’s new for paid users?

Meanwhile, students outside India, from the U.S., Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, and the UK, are getting a nice bonus. If they sign up by June 30, they get 15 months of the AI Pro plan for free, which usually costs $19.99 a month (₹1,740 approx). This includes NotebookLM, 2TB of storage, and more.

Google also mentioned that AI Ultra plan users will get better model performance and higher usage limits within NotebookLM. This plan costs $249.99 a month in the U.S. (around ₹21,750) and it’s being targeted at people doing high-volume research or teaching work. That feature set will become available later this year.

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