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Google’s Photoshop-killer AI model is coming to search, Photos, and NotebookLM

AI, Artificial Intelligence, generative ai, Google, google notebookLM, google photos, search, Tech / DJ Henderson / October 14, 2025

NotebookLM added a video overview feature several months back, which uses AI to generate a video summary of the content you’ve added to the notebook. The addition of Nano Banana to NotebookLM is much less open-ended. Instead of entering prompts to edit images, NotebookLM has a new set of video styles powered by Nano Banana, including whiteboard, anime, retro print, and more. The original style is still available as “Classic.”

My favorite video.

NotebookLM’s videos are still somewhat limited, but this update adds a second general format. You can now choose “Brief” in addition to “Explainer,” with the option to add prompts that steer the video in the right direction. Although, that’s not a guarantee, as this is still generative AI. At least the style should be more consistent with the addition of Nano Banana.

The updated image editor is also coming to Google Photos, but Google doesn’t have a firm timeline. Google claims that its Nano Banana model is a “major upgrade” over its previous image-editing model. Conversational editing was added to Photos last month, but it’s not the Nano Banana model that has impressed testers over the summer. Google says that Nano Banana will arrive in the Photos app in the next few weeks, which should make those conversational edits much less frustrating.

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Google teases NotebookLM app in the Play Store ahead of I/O release

After several years of escalating AI hysteria, we are all familiar with Google’s desire to put Gemini in every one of its products. That can be annoying, but NotebookLM is not—this one actually works. NotebookLM, which helps you parse documents, videos, and more using Google’s advanced AI models, has been available on the web since 2023, but Google recently confirmed it would finally get an Android app. You can get a look at the app now, but it’s not yet available to install.

Until now, NotebookLM was only a website. You can visit it on your phone, but the interface is clunky compared to the desktop version. The arrival of the mobile app will change that. Google said it plans to release the app at Google I/O in late May, but the listing is live in the Play Store early. You can pre-register to be notified when the download is live, but you’ll have to tide yourself over with the screenshots for the time being.

NotebookLM relies on the same underlying technology as Google’s other chatbots and AI projects, but instead of a general purpose robot, NotebookLM is only concerned with the documents you upload. It can assimilate text files, websites, and videos, including multiple files and source types for a single agent. It has a hefty context window of 500,000 tokens and supports document uploads as large as 200MB. Google says this creates a queryable “AI expert” that can answer detailed questions and brainstorm ideas based on the source data.