Google’s NotebookLM Turns Research into TikTok-Style Summaries
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– Google’s NotebookLM is adding a feature that generates 60-second vertical AI videos, styled like TikTok clips, from user-uploaded sources.
– The feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, with free user support coming “soon.”
– Users can generate a clip by selecting a notebook, choosing “Video” from the Studio column, picking a topic, and clicking “Generate.”
– The example video used paper cutout-style AI art and narration to explain Australia’s unsuccessful war on emus.
– The feature currently supports English only, and joins existing NotebookLM tools like AI podcasts, cinematic videos, and visual explainers.
Google is giving its AI-powered research assistant NotebookLM a major content refresh, and the new feature looks a lot like TikTok. Subscribers to Google AI Ultra and Pro tiers can now generate 60-second vertical AI videos directly from their uploaded source materials, turning dense research into short, digestible clips.
The company demonstrated the capability with a surprisingly whimsical example: Australia’s infamous and unsuccessful military campaign against emus. The resulting video uses paper cutout-style AI art and a narrated script, showcasing how NotebookLM can package information into a format more familiar to social media users. This joins existing tools in the platform for creating AI-generated podcasts, cinematic videos, and visual explainers, giving researchers multiple ways to consume their data.
Creating one of these short clips is straightforward. Open NotebookLM on the web or in the mobile app, navigate to your chosen notebook, and look for the “Video” option in the Studio column on the right side of the screen. Select “Short,” pick a topic from NotebookLM’s suggestions or type in your own custom focus, then click “Generate.” The whole process is built to be quick.
Right now, the feature is available in English only. Google has promised that support for free-tier users is coming “soon,” though no specific date has been provided.
(Source: The Verge)
