Zoom AI Companion is a generative AI-powered assistant integrated into the Zoom platform, designed to enhance productivity, collaboration, and overall user experience. Here’s a detailed overview of what it does and its key features:
What is Zoom AI Companion?
Zoom AI Companion is an AI-driven tool launched by Zoom in September 2023, available at no additional cost to users with paid Zoom plans. It is designed to assist users in various aspects of communication and collaboration within the Zoom ecosystem.
Key Features
Meetings
- Meeting Summaries: Automatically generates summaries of meetings, including key points and next steps, which can be shared via email or Team Chat.
- Smart Recordings: Organizes cloud recordings into smart chapters, highlights important information, and lists action items. Users can review these recordings with analytics on key meeting and conversation factors.
- Catch Up: Allows users to ask questions about what they missed during a meeting.
- In-Meeting Queries: Enables meeting hosts to turn on AI Companion features during meetings, such as summaries or in-meeting queries, with participants receiving in-product notices about the active AI capabilities.
Email and Communication
- Email Composition: Assists in composing and replying to emails based on the email thread, suggesting content and tone.
- Chat Summarization: Summarizes long Zoom Team Chat threads and helps draft messages based on conversational context, allowing customization of tone and length.
Whiteboard and Content Generation
- Idea Generation: Helps generate ideas, refine existing content, and add objects to a digital whiteboard canvas.
Events
- Event Support: Drafts chat messages for Lobby chats based on conversational context and generates emails, subject lines, titles, and calls to action using the context from Zoom Event descriptions.
Additional Capabilities
- Zoom AI Companion 2.0: The latest version enhances the original features with more advanced capabilities, such as an expanded context window, remembering previous interactions, and delivering more relevant responses. It can collect data from various Zoom apps, connected tools like Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, and even access web information using Perplexity AI.
- Zoom Tasks: Helps identify and complete next steps and action items across the workplace, allowing users to surface, track, and complete actions from various conversations.
- Content Creation and Editing: Assists in composing more in-depth emails, generating marketing content, event itineraries, and editing existing content. It can also create and transform slides for presentations and highlight important parts of documents.
Access and Controls
- Enablement: All AI Companion features are turned off by default and must be enabled by the account owner or administrator. Meeting hosts can then control which features are active during meetings.
- User Interface: Users can access the AI Companion by clicking on a star/sparkle icon within the Zoom interface.
Benefits
Zoom AI Companion aims to save users time, enhance collaboration, and improve productivity by automating routine tasks, providing summaries, and generating content. It integrates seamlessly into the Zoom Workplace experience, making it a valuable tool for users looking to streamline their communication and collaboration processes.