Zoom Announces New AI Companion Capabilities

Zoom has announced new Zoom AI Companion capabilities, including enhancements to meeting summaries and generative AI built into Zoom Clips. The new capabilities and features for AI Companion across the Zoom Workplace will help users elevate their workdays and derive more out of the meetings.

The new AI Companion capabilities include:

• Generative AI virtual backgrounds: Zoom users can now leverage AI Companion to generate creative backgrounds quickly for their meetings.

• Screen shared and in-meeting chat content improve meeting summaries: AI Companion can now use optical character recognition (OCR) technology to convert images of text screen shared during a meeting into machine-readable text to generate more accurate and relevant meeting summaries.

• Zoom Clips title and description generation: AI Companion can now automatically generate Zoom Clips titles and descriptions based on the clip’s transcript, saving time and effort.

• Share meeting summaries with co-hosts or alternative hosts: Now, hosts can choose to distribute meeting summaries to co-hosts or alternative hosts.  

• A new way to quantify AI: Zoom launched its ROI calculator to help individuals and organizations understand how much they could save in terms of productivity and cost if AI Companion for Zoom Meetings is used across an organization. 

• AI Companion Onboarding Center: The Zoom AI Companion Onboarding Center helps organizations introduce AI Companion by providing access to email templates, user guides, best practices, videos, surveys, and more.

Further, to boost employee experience, Zoom is driven to create new ways to reach and engage its global workforce to ensure a seamless in-office experience. A part of this effort is the integrations of Microsoft Teams and Slack.

Therein, Workspace Reservation will be available on Microsoft Teams and Slack; and the Zoom Chatbot will provide notifications through respective platforms and the ability to check in through the Zoom Chatbot.

Moreover, Zoom Docs, Zoom’s AI-first collaborative docs solution, powered by Zoom AI Companion is currently available.

Zoom states that users can access the AI Companion at no additional cost, with the paid services in Zoom accounts.