AI for Research and Insights

Name: AI for Research and Insights
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Course 3/7 of Google AI Professional Certificate

Use AI as a strategic research partner to accelerate your learning and sharpen your decision-making.

Created byGoogle

Last updated 8/2026

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What you'll learn

Synthesize data sources using Gemini Deep Research to generate a comprehensive research report and actionable insights from multiple sources.
Construct a research hub in Gemini Notebook to summarize multimodal inputs and extract key themes across different sources.
Develop a custom AI expert using Gemini Gems to gain new perspectives on your work.
Evaluate AI-generated findings by verifying sources, and grounding all responses in source documentation.

Course content

3 sections • 13 lectures • 26m total length

AI for research and insights2:20
Explore how AI, via Gemini Deep Research and NotebookLM, serves as a research partner, scouring sources to extract key takeaways and deliver stronger, clearer reports.
Clara, what's the most common way you use AI?1:10
Leverage Gemini's Deep Research to analyze the competitive landscape and message effectiveness, by reading hundreds of sites and producing a robust report with an audio overview.
Prepare: Generate research reports to gain insights1:12
Learn: Produce a research report5:04
Learn to use Gemini deep research to gather and synthesize external sources, build and edit a research plan, and produce a color trends report with infographic for your paint line.
Build with AI: Research report1:58
Yul, what advice do you give your friends who want to use AI?0:34
Learn to leverage Gemini's DeepResearch to prepare for interviews by gathering company and role details, anticipate questions, and draft strong, ready-to-answer responses.

Requirements

None.

Description

Need to get up to speed on complex topics, fast? In this course, you’ll transform AI into your strategic research partner to accelerate your learning and sharpen your decision-making. You’ll start by using Gemini Deep Research to analyze dozens of sources in minutes, moving from raw data to compelling visual reports instantly. Next, you’ll learn how to feed Gemini Notebook diverse sources—like PDFs and videos—to generate instant, actionable summaries. Finally, you’ll use meta-prompting techniques in Gemini to simulate an expert persona, allowing you to pressure-test your ideas and gain new perspectives.

By the end of this course, you will create:

A professional research report: Use Gemini Deep Research to analyze multiple sources and design an infographic to share your findings clearly.
The ultimate brief on any topic: Use Gemini Notebook to synthesize articles, videos, and transcripts into a single overview so you can get up to speed on any topic, quickly.
An expert persona: Use Gemini to simulate stakeholders, such as a skeptical customer or a manager, to test your ideas and uncover new insights.

This course is a part of the Google AI Professional Certificate, a program that takes you beyond foundational understanding to becoming an AI-fluent professional. With this certificate, you’ll gain hands-on experience building the AI skills that employers are looking for. Designed by experts at Google, you’ll practice using AI in real workplace tasks. You’ll learn how to use AI to sharpen your strategy, boost your creativity, and streamline the repetitive parts of your day, and you’ll build a portfolio of 20+ AI projects to show off your new skills. And, to help you do your best work, you’ll gain access to Google AI Pro at no cost, giving you experience with Google’s most helpful tools.