Derived formats with Gemini

The natural capability of Generative AI is to generate stuff - and Gemini’s particularly good with media. For example, we can take any document, like this MasterCard report on The State of Open Finance 2026, and generate videos, podcasts, sketchnotes, songs, and more from it. How? I uploaded the PDF to NotebookLM and created a 20-minute podcast by clicking on Generate Audio Overview - Deep Dive - English - Default. Listen to the English podcast It supports multiple languages, so I generated a Chinese and Filipino version as well. Listen to the Chinese podcast Listen to the Filipino podcast Clicking on Generate Video Overview - Cinematic led to this video overview: Video There are other formats in which we can generate videos. The Cinematic format is new, and the list is growing. It’s not just NotebookLM that you can use to generate new formats. Gemini itself supports a variety of formats. For example, I used my Gemini Sketchnote prompt to create a visual summary of the report: … and,…