Google's NotebookLM can now write code and analyze data for you

Google keeps rolling out new improvements to NotebookLM every few weeks. Now, the company is rolling out one of the biggest updates yet for its AI-powered research tool in recent times. The main highlight is the addition of agentic capabilities and advanced reasoning to handle even more complex research projects.

Following the debut of Gemini 3.5 at I/O 2026 last month, Google is bringing its latest AI model and Antigravity to NotebookLM. This should lead to NotebookLM providing even more accurate, detailed, and consistent responses. Plus, the tool will now show its detailed thinking steps, so you have a better understanding of how NotebookLM arrived at its answer.

For more advanced projects, every NotebookLM notebook now gets access to a secure cloud-based computer. This allows the AI-powered research tool to write and execute code on your behalf, enabling deeper analysis and more sophisticated research workflows. Google says NotebookLM can tap into more than 100 software tools and capabilities to analyze data, generate visualizations, and perform other complex tasks.

NotebookLM's export capabilities are also improving. The tool can now output data in a variety of new formats, including:

• Data visualizations and charts (png, svg)
• Documents (PDFs, docx, markdown, text files)
• Images with Nano Banana (png, jpg, gif)
• Structured data (csv, json)
• Microsoft Excel (xlsx)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (pptx)

Besides support for additional file formats, you can provide export instructions and make changes after the file is generated. Plus, NotebookLM can use the information from a notebook to output PDF reports with charts and tables, generate detailed budget reports, and more.

Google AI Ultra subscribers get first dibs on the new features

Google is also making NotebookLM more useful when starting a new project. Previously, the tool worked best when you already had a collection of sources ready to upload.

Now, you can start with a rough idea or question, and NotebookLM will help you discover and organize relevant sources. It will suggest related materials and pull in relevant information from across the web, with the option to add those sources directly to your notebook.

For now, the latest round of NotebookLM upgrades is only rolling out on the web and to Google AI Ultra and Workspace business customers. The company will expand access to users on other tiers in the coming weeks.