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NotebookLM gets Gemini 2.5 Flash as it prepares to launch as a standalone app


The research tool is rapidly gaining improvements.

NotebookLM's chatbot and research functions are now powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash, a thinking model with advanced reasoning techniques, Google announced today, May 2 in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The company says the Gemini 2.5 Flash upgrade will only impact NotebookLM's chatbot and Q&A modes, leaving Audio Overviews unchanged. The timing is significant for NotebookLM, as the popular research tool was first revealed as Project Tailwind at Google I/O two years prior.

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