Zoom’s AI Companion Gets Major Upgrade: Automates Tasks, Meetings, and More

Zoom’s AI Companion Gets Major Upgrade: Automates Tasks, Meetings, and More

Zoom’s AI Companion is getting an “agentic” upgrade at the end of this month, allowing it to identify and perform tasks on users’ behalf. Workplace users will be able to access the feature within a new Tasks tab in Workplace, where they can have Zoom’s AI schedule follow-up meetings, generate documents from meetings, and create video clips. Image:Google Some other updates are coming to Zoom too, including a new voice recorder for the Zoom Workplace mobile app that will record, transcribe, and summarize in-person meetings when it launches this month. Zoom is also rolling out live notes in May, which will generate real-time summaries during Zoom meetings and phone calls. The app’s AI Companion and these new features will be available at no additional cost to Zoom Workplace users. “We see AI stretching across every part of every product and interactions in ways that is really helpful and useful so that it can help you do more,” Smita Hashim, Zoom’s chief product officer, said during an int…