Get ready for some exciting news from Google! This Tuesday, Google unveileda brand new feature for its AI-powered note-taking assistant, NotebookLM; “Video Overviews.” This remarkable addition, initially revealed at Google I/Oback in May, empowers users to convert hefty content like raw notes, PDFs, and images into easily digestible visual presentations.

Earlier, NotebookLM opted for an auditory learning approach with Audio Overviews. This handy feature lets users whip up a podcast, hosted by an AI, based on documents they'd shared with NotebookLM, for example, study materials or legal briefs. That sure was cool, but now NotebookLM is raising the bar by taking a more visual route to simplify complex topics and ideas for you.

Google likes to think of Video Overviews as a pictorial equivalent of Audio Overviews. The feature works like a charm by creating fresh visuals and further complementing them with images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers already there in the uploaded documents. This dynamic feature simplifies data breakdowns, makes it easy to understand difficult concepts, and displays processes clearly.

Check out an example below!

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And here's the icing on the cake - Video Overviews are just as flexible and customizable as Audio Overviews. You can prioritize subjects, set learning targets, cater to a specific audience, and much more. Be it, vague queries, for instance, “Watch these diagrams and explain this topic to me as if I just started exploring it,” or complex ones like, “My team and I are experts in X and we work on Y, just focus on Z.” Video Overviews have got you covered!

Now, the much-awaited rollout of Video Overviews will be reaching all English-speaking users. And don't worry if English isn't your native tongue. More languages will be supported pretty soon, promises Google.

That's not all. Google is jazzing things up even more by introducing updates to the NotebookLM's Studio panel. Here's what's new: you can now churn out multiple studio outputs of the same format and store them all in one notebook! Nice, huh? Also, you'll find four handy tiles at the top of the Studio panel to create Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Mind Maps, and Reports in a jiffy.

Plus, multitasking within the Studio panel just became a breeze. Fancy listening to an Audio Overview while skimming through a Mind Map or reviewing a study guide? Well, now you can!