NotebookLM is a specialized AI tool that focuses on your data sources.  

It helps you read, summarize, create insights, research, and generate content.  

One thing that people really like about NotebookLM is that it hallucinates much less than popular AI chatbot tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude, and even Gemini.  Because the chatbots are using a much larger pool of information, it’s easier for them to get “confused”.  This is one of the advantages of NotebookLM’s focus on your data sources.

NotebookLM is also very easy to learn.  The interface is straightforward, and the features work well.

And, yes, this is the tool that made the AI-generated “podcast” popular.  It’s kind of amazing how well it works.