NotebookLM integrates Deep Research for comprehensive reports
Google continues to unify its AI tools, and this time, NotebookLM is benefiting from the powerful capabilities of Gemini: Deep Research. This week, all users will gain access to this autonomous search engine, directly integrated into their notebooks.
This development transforms NotebookLM into much more than a note-taking assistant: it has become a true virtual researcher capable of exploring the web, analyzing complex sources, structuring a report, and linking it to your existing documents—all without leaving your workflow.
Deep Research integrates with NotebookLM: from simple summaries to comprehensive reports
Previously, NotebookLM could summarize, analyze, and link your documents. Now, with Deep Research, it takes a significant leap: it navigates the web for you, similar to how Gemini functions in Gmail, Drive, or Google Chat.
Two research modes are now available:
- Fast Research— for quick results
- Immediate search
- Concise, easily exploitable results
- Ideal for orienting yourself or resolving simple questions
- Deep Research— for a complete dossier
- In-depth analysis
- Search for “high-quality” sources (articles, academic papers, web pages)
- Generation of a research outline before execution
- Fully-sourced final report
- Ability to add documents while the report is being built in the background
The result: you can build a true knowledge base around a topic without juggling between tabs, PDFs, and search engines.
NotebookLM becomes compatible with more file types
Google is also expanding the types of documents that can be integrated:
- Google Sheets—perfect for automatically extracting statistics and trends
- Drive files via simple URL (PDF, Docs…)
- Microsoft Word (.docx)
- Drive PDFs without manual import
These formats join the existing options and finally allow for the ingestion of mixed corpora (texts + tables + URLs + technical documents).
NotebookLM evolves rapidly: videos, AI podcasts, mobile… and now web search
Since late 2023, Google has been transforming NotebookLM into a creative research platform:
- Audio Overviews: an “AI podcast” based on your documents
- Video Overviews: visual synthesis in presentation form
- Android & iOS applications
- Automatic organization of documents
- And now: Deep Research
Google’s ambition is clear: to make NotebookLM a space where you can centralize, analyze, and synthesize all types of content—personal, professional, or educational.
Do you plan to use it? This new NotebookLM aims to become a comprehensive research assistant, far more advanced than just an enhanced note-taking tool.
We’re curious about your opinion: is this a tool that would save you time, or is it another step toward an AI that is too present in our workflows?
