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Every Notebook Now Comes With a Coding Agent.

The product lead for Gemini Notebooks (formerly NotebookLM) introduced the built-in VM and Antigravity coding agent. It's actually a feature announced back on June 8.

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Every Notebook Now Comes With a Coding Agent

Key takeaways

  1. 1Trond Wuellner, product lead for Google's Gemini Notebooks (formerly NotebookLM), recapped the built-in VM, Antigravity coding agent, and skills on X on August 20, 2026.
  2. 2The feature isn't a new launch but an update Google officially announced on June 8, 2026, which Wuellner himself co-wrote at the time.
  3. 3Antigravity inside Gemini Notebooks only shares a name with the separate VS Code-based Antigravity IDE and runs in a different context.
A miniature desktop tower computer and a small gear resting on an open spiral notebook against an orange background

Trond Wuellner (@trondw), product lead for Google's Gemini Notebooks (formerly NotebookLM), said on X at 7:23 a.m. KST on August 20, 2026 that "Gemini Notebooks now comes with a built-in VM, the Antigravity coding agent, and a range of skills." The post passed 70,000 views.

It's actually a June feature

This announcement itself isn't new, though. Google officially announced a major update to Gemini Notebooks combining Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity on June 8, 2026. According to 9to5Google, each notebook gets a dedicated cloud computer that writes and runs code directly, you can pick from more than 100 skills, and you can export results in 11 formats. Trond Wuellner was also one of the people who co-announced the update at the time.

This August post is closer to a reminder of that feature. The phrase "As of today" could be mistaken for a new launch, but the actual change was more than two months ago.

Same name, different product: be careful

The Antigravity here runs in a different context from "Google Antigravity," the standalone VS Code-based agent IDE. Inside Gemini Notebooks, it works as a reasoning and orchestration engine that plans multistep tasks and calls skills. The same name is used for two products, so don't confuse them.

If you already use Gemini Notebooks to run code or organize material, you can use the agent features directly from the notebook screen with no extra setup.

Frequently asked questions

When did Gemini Notebooks' Antigravity feature come out?
It's an update Google officially announced on June 8, 2026. The August 20 post reintroduced a feature that was already out.
Is Antigravity inside Gemini Notebooks the same product as the separate Antigravity IDE?
No. They share a name, but inside Gemini Notebooks it's a reasoning engine that handles multistep work in a notebook, while the separate Antigravity is a standalone VS Code-based agent IDE.
Do I need to sign up separately to use this feature?
The original post didn't mention a separate sign-up process. Existing Gemini Notebooks users can see the related features right from the notebook screen.

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