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May 15, 2026
Yesterday, I posted about what NotebookLM did with the Stepan brochure. Here's taking it one step further.
AI tools are starting to blur together. NotebookLM still stands out for turning a chemical brochure into a two-host podcast you can interrupt with questions, and the other tools haven't caught up.
AI tools are starting to blur together. Drop a chemical brochure into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or NotebookLM and you mostly get the same thing back.
But NotebookLM still has everyone beat at one thing:
𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁.
• Two AI hosts, real back-and-forth, the kind of audio you can put on between customer calls.
• You can also interrupt the podcast and ask it questions.
Pretty amazing, but not novel for long. The other tools haven’t caught up.
You can also see the science of soap video NotebookLM made.