NotebookLM & Gemini’s New Features are INCREDIBLE! (New Models & Features)

Author: Rob The AI Guy · Watch on YouTube

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Original language: English

Original video: NotebookLM & Gemini’s New Features are INCREDIBLE! (New Models & Features) · Channel: Rob The AI Guy · 10:51 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: Task and workflow automation, AI developer tools, AI content generation, AI models

Summary

The video tours new features across Google Vids, Gemini, and NotebookLM, including video creation tools, the Gemini 4 Argon model, skills and app connections, and a new Gemini Labs hub. It also demonstrates NotebookLM’s interactive reports, customizable quizzes, and mobile audio recording. The presenter highlights the Gemini app for Windows and its daily brief, screen-aware features, and remote task controls. He also recommends LLM Helper as a way to find automations and MCP servers for AI tools.

Key points

Google Vids brings together video creation and editing, avatars, voiceovers, music, images, templates, and recording tools.
The presenter says Gemini 4 Argon is aimed at complex software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense, but is not yet generally available.
Gemini Spark supports uploaded or manually created skills, described as SOPs for guiding an AI agent, and offers connected apps plus custom MCP links.
LLM Helper is presented as a tool for finding automations, MCP servers, plugins, and connectors for Gemini and other AI assistants.
A new Labs area in Gemini surfaces tools such as Opal, Stacks, and Jules.
NotebookLM can generate interactive reports from prompts and sources, with suggested additions such as mind maps, slide decks, infographics, flashcards, and quizzes.
NotebookLM quizzes now allow users to choose question formats, including multiple choice, multiple select, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer.
NotebookLM’s mobile app can record audio and add it as a source, for example from a meeting, classroom, or walk.
The Gemini app for Windows includes a daily brief, personalized intelligence settings, screen-aware use, connected apps, and remote task options.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Google Vids and video creation tools	The presenter demonstrates Google Vids’ video, avatar, voice, music, recording, and editing features and describes it as a free all-in-one tool.
02:35	Gemini 4 Argon and Spark updates	The video covers the announced Gemini 4 Argon model, Spark skills and connectors, and LLM Helper’s automation and MCP discovery features.
06:42	Gemini Labs and NotebookLM reports	The presenter tours Gemini Labs and demonstrates NotebookLM’s interactive reports, suggested content, and configurable quiz question types.
09:17	NotebookLM recording and the Gemini desktop app	The video shows NotebookLM’s mobile audio recording feature and reviews the Gemini Windows app’s daily brief, screen access, and task settings.

Quotes

You could create your own personal avatar to star in any video. — 00:31

it’s basically an SOP that you are giving to your AI agent — 04:36

we could create interactive reports. — 07:44

You could use this to be able to record a meeting, to be able to record a classroom. — 09:17

This is where we can actually go through and use Gemini, no matter what we’re doing. — 10:20

Concepts and entities

Google, Vids, Gemini 4 Argon, Spark, MCP, LLM Helper, Opal, Stacks, Jules, NotebookLM

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 Google Gemini and Notebook LM just dropped a bunch of brand new upgrades that change everything because Google Gemini dropped Gemini 4 Argon. Notebook LM dropped the ability to record and so much more. By the end of this video, you’re going to know what all these changes are and how you could take advantage of them. So, Google Gemini update number one that I want to show you is going to be vids.new. This will actually bring you to docs.google.com and essentially what this does is this allows you to create any type of content that you want for free with Google. We could see that we create AI videos right

00:31 here. This uses the Omni model. You can edit videos or transform them. You can create your own personal avatar to star in any video. You could write a script, choose an avatar, and generate a video. You could turn a document into a video, slides into a video. You could record yourself, your screen, or both. You could upload media and they have a bunch of different templates. You could do this in landscape. You could do this in portrait. You could do this in square. What’s absolutely incredible about this is one, it’s free. Two, it gives you access to Google’s latest and best models. For example, let’s click on AI

01:02 video right here. We could see that we could come over here and we could create, we can edit, we can animate, or we could extend. Then if we click on this right here, this basically just makes us bigger or makes us smaller. In addition to that, on the right-hand side, we could see all the different things that we could do here. We could see AI video, we could see avatar right here where we could actually come through and we could design a custom avatar or we could choose from one of Google’s avatars. In addition to that, with voiceover right here, we could come over here and click on change again. And they have tons of different voices. This is actually going to be powered by their

01:33 brand new text-to-speech model, which is incredible. If we come over into music right here, this is powered by Lyra 3. We could describe a song, genre, mood, instrumentals, add in our own lyrics, and it will actually do this. Or if we wanted to without lyrics, we could have it just be an instrumental. In addition to that, we could come over here and generate images. We could once again record ourselves. We could see, we could record a camera, we could record a camera and screen. you could do screen, you could do voiceover. We come over into uploads right here. This is where you’ll actually be able to go through and upload things. If we come into

02:04 stock, they have tons of different stock footage. You could do your captions from here. You can do text from here. And they have a ton of different templates right here, which is absolutely incredible. Now, I want you to think about this. Basically, what they did here was combined their best video model, their best editing model, their AI avatars, their text-to-speech model, their music model, their best image model all into one tool, and this just killed so many different startups. Because guess what? For me to record this video that I’m doing right now, I actually use this tool right here. In

02:35 the past, I had to pay for a tool to do that. I was also paying for Photoshop. I was also paying for an AI music tool. I was also paying for 11 Labs. I was also paying for HeyGen. I was also paying for CapCut so that I could edit and animate my content. But guess what? Now, I could do all this from one tool for free. But that was just change number one. Change number two is they also launched Gemini 4 Argon right here. This is their brand new model. And if we scroll down right here, we could see what actually makes this so incredible. Look at the benchmarks here. I’m going to zoom in a

03:05 little bit. We could see that this is better than ChatGPT 6 Ashra and everything that is highlighted in blue right here. It’s also better than Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5.5. So literally, on the majority of these things, this is actually going to be better or on par. And if we look at this, there’s only 1 2 3 4 5 different things that one of these models is slightly better at. And this is incredible because Google has been behind for so long, but now they’re starting to come ahead. And in terms of

03:35 what this really does a great job at right here, this is good at delivering performance in complex workflows across real software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, for example, legal and finance, and then also cybersecurity defense. Now, if you come over into your Google Gemini right now, you are not actually going to see this model available because if we come over here and we actually read the fine print at the bottom, we could see that this is going to be rolling out soon. Right now, it’s given to a cohort of cyber defenders and trusted defenders. Once

04:06 they actually say, “Okay, this looks good to go.” which if I had to guess, it’s probably going to be in the next few days or the next week or so, this is then going to release on the Google API into Google AI Ultra subscribers and then from there, every 1 to 2 weeks, it’ll probably get rolled out even more people. Now, the next update we need to talk about is actually going to be two Sparks. So, now when we come over to Spark right here, we could see that we can now upload skills via this button right here. We could create them manually or we could create them with Gemini. If you don’t know what a skill is, it’s basically an SOP that you are

04:36 giving to your AI agent, Spark in this case. So, if you wanted to write your scripts every time the same way, respond to emails, do some type of data analysis the same way every single time, you want to use a skill which basically prevents it from hallucinating. In addition to that, if we come over to connected apps right here, what you’re going to notice is that there are a bunch more connected apps that you are now able to add in to Google Gemini. Now, there’s still one thing holding this back. They only have about 20 different connectors right here, but what’s cool is we could see that you could actually use custom apps

05:07 right here. So, you could get a custom app link to a custom MCP, be able to hook it up here. Now, you’re probably thinking to yourself, “Rob, what MCP server should I be using and what things can I now automate with this?” And there’s actually a tool that makes this incredibly easy for you to figure out. It’s called LLM Helper. It allows you to get 10 times more out of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini because when you actually log in here, we could see they have an automations builder. What this allows you to do is come over here, select what tool you’re using, Gemini. You describe your role, the tasks you want automated, the tools you want to use, or the tools that you use

05:37 currently. For example, I told it I was a YouTuber, I want to write scripts, I want to find ideas, I want to track competitors, I want to use VidIQ, and this literally it through and gives me six different automations I should set up. Shows me exactly what custom MCP servers I actually have to use here and gives me the exact prompts I could use to automate my work. In addition to that, they have things like an AI detector that will actually allow you to detect whether or not somebody’s using AI in their content, in their emails to you. They have a humanizer which allows you to take AI generated content and make it look more human. They also have

06:10 a plugin and connector search. They have an MCP finder where you can describe exactly what your job role and tasks are and this will actually give you a bunch of different things to help supercharge your experience on Google Gemini. And I personally use this tool every single day to help me find new automations, new MCP servers and things that I could connect to Gemini to get more out of it. And by the way, if you go to the pin comment below, you could get started with LLM Helper today. They’re offering a free trial and I would strongly suggest that you sign up for this because it’s going to help you get the most out of Google Gemini, ChatGPT and

06:42 Claude no matter what LLM you’re using. So, go to that pin comment below and get started with a free trial today. Now, the next update I wanted to show you here is now from inside of Gemini we’re going to see labs right here. Basically, what they just did is they added all different Gemini labs into here so we could see we could access stream beans, play with putty, literature insights, hypothesis generation and we could see all the different tools that Google Gemini has you probably haven’t seen before. For example, they have Opal which lets you build, edit and share AI mini apps. They have stacks which lets

07:13 you create an AI evaluation toolkit. They have jewels which is a coding agent. They have all of these different tools right here and we could come up here and we could actually surface them by create, by development, by exploring, by learning and they have all these different tools all powered by Google Gemini. This is very similar to that video tool that I showed you earlier and this is where I think we’re really going to see Gemini go. You’ll probably use ChatGPT and Claude as your daily driver when it comes to AI but they’re generating all all different tools across all these different use cases that are incredibly helpful. Now, the

07:44 next update I wanted to show you is actually going to be to Notebook LM because let’s say that we come over here, we are now going to see a few new things. We’re going to see reports right here. So, now if we actually click on reports, we could see we could create interactive reports. If we come out of our document right here, you could create a blog post, a study guide, a briefing document, you could create your own. But, what’s really powerful is interactive right here. If you come over here and you generate this, it’ll generate incredibly quickly. In fact, I generated this one right here. We could see that basically what this did was this used a prompt and the four sources

08:16 that I have connected here to go through and create this and we can actually link through this. Now, what’s even cooler is if we scroll down here, this actually shows us, “Hey, you should add a mind map right here.” We click on add, this will go through and generate it, and then it will actually show inside of this report. You could share this report, we could come over here and save this report. If we scroll down, it also wants to add in a slide deck, wants to add in another infographic here, wants to add in flashcards here, wants to add in a quiz here. So, basically, this is able to create an entire thing for

08:46 whatever you’re trying to do. And we could see right here, this is already done generating, it’s just loading now. So, things generate way quicker when you do them inside of one of these interactive reports. In addition, if we come over into quizzes now, this looks completely different. We could see that we could choose what different types of question types are going to show in a quiz. We could have it be multiple choice only or only multiple select or only fill in the blank or only short answer or we could have it actually be all four of those, which I think is pretty cool. On top of that, they also released a bunch of other updates to Notebook LM right here. For

09:17 example, if we scroll down, we can now see that you can actually record things and capture your thoughts on the go. You could use this to be able to record a meeting, to be able to record a classroom. Maybe you’re just on a walk and you want to be able to record things. You could record and then have that as a source and upload it to Notebook LM, which I find incredibly useful. And by the way, in order to do this, you’re simply just going to click on this microphone button. You’ll be able to pause it, you’ll be able to accept it, and this is incredibly easy to do. This right now is available from the mobile app, and it should, as of

09:49 today, be rolled out to everybody. In addition to that, if you haven’t already seen, the Gemini app is now available on Windows. If you don’t know what that looks like, if I come over into my launchpad, I click on Gemini, we could see exactly what the app looks like. It actually looks a little bit different than the web version, and we actually come over into the settings here, we could see that it is quite different. This is where you’ll actually be able to generate your daily brief right here, and this will actually show up every morning. In addition, if we come into the settings here, we could see that we could actually control our personalized

10:20 intelligence from inside of here, which is going to be used to actually create that daily brief. In addition to that, if we come over to speak to window right here, this is where we can actually go through and use Gemini, no matter what we’re doing. It could see our screen, it can hear you, it can see you, and it is pretty cool. In addition to that, if we come over to Gemini Spark right here, we could see that we could actually turn on run tasks remotely from other devices, so we could connect this Mac to something like our phone. We could keep the Mac awake in order to run tasks. We can be alerted when a backup fails, and we can actually enable precise backups.

10:51 In addition to that, you can control what voice Gemini is actually using right here. If we come over into connected apps, we’ll be able to actually go through and connect all the different apps, like what I showed you earlier, and I personally find this just to be a better way to actually use Google Gemini, because it’s actually on your computer. It can access your local files. It has its own browser, and it’s just a way faster experience. Now, if you enjoyed this video, and you want to learn about all the updates that ChatGPT recently released, I would strongly suggest you check out this video right here. I’ll see you over there.