NotebookLM’s Major Upgrade: AI Generates Professional Slide Decks and Infographics in One Click
Google’s AI-powered research assistant, NotebookLM, has received a major update with the official launch of two new features: Slide Decks and Infographics. This powerful upgrade transforms NotebookLM from an “AI note-taking wizard” into a comprehensive, one-stop content creation platform, significantly boosting productivity for knowledge workers, analysts, and enterprise clients.
The new features, which are directly relevant to major tech announcements and the evolution of AI productivity tools, aim to eliminate the friction between managing complex research and creating polished, presentation-ready content.
The Power of AI-Generated Slide Decks
The Slide Decks feature allows users to transform their source materials into complete, professional-level presentation slides with a single click.
Effortless Generation: Users simply upload their source materials—which can include PDFs, documents, web links, YouTube videos, and even spreadsheets—into their NotebookLM environment. The AI then generates a full set of slides in seconds.
Accuracy and Reliability: Crucially, the generated content strictly adheres to the original source materials provided by the user. This focus on source adherence is a key design choice that helps avoid the common issue of “hallucination” found in traditional AI tools, ensuring the presentation content is accurate and reliable.
Deep Customization: The new feature supports deep customization, allowing users to define the number of slides, presentation style (such as minimalist or tech), specific key sections to include, or the target language through custom prompts. This allows for easy comparison and optimization by generating multiple variations.
Visual Excellence Powered by Nano Banana Pro
A major highlight of this upgrade is the visual quality embedded in the new outputs. The outstanding images in the slide decks and infographics are driven by Google’s latest image generation model, Nano Banana Pro (also referred to as Gemini 3 Pro Image).
This integration ensures that the visuals are more immersive and information-dense, helping to make complex content vivid and understandable at a glance. Nano Banana Pro is also simultaneously rolling out to other Google Workspace tools, including Slides, Vids, and the Gemini app.
Infographics and Expanded File Support
In addition to the Slide Decks feature, NotebookLM also introduced Infographics, which automatically converts complex data from source materials into high-quality visual summary charts. The Infographics generator is also evolving to support new formats, including a square option that is perfect for generating social media-friendly visuals.
Furthermore, the platform has expanded its file format support, allowing users to upload spreadsheets, slide decks, and various other document types for analysis, making it an even more robust research and analysis tool for data-heavy tasks.
Availability
This major feature update, which signals Google’s strong intent to lead in multimodal AI productivity, began rolling out on November 20, 2025, to Google Workspace Business, Enterprise, and AI Pro/Ultra customers.
Source Video: The announcement video for this feature can be found here: NotebookLM introducing Slide Decks