Zoom Introduces a New AI Companion Tool

Earlier this month Zoom introduced the Zoom AI Companion 3.0 which the company has promised will be an all in one sort of solution with a Custom AI Companion add-on that will empower users with easy creation and deployment of custom AI agents and tailored AI solutions. 

The goal is to offer lifelike AI avatars for meetings, live translations, the ability to generate clips from presentations, and proactive agentic AI that can help users free up their time, show up prepared, keep meetings on track, and create rich content based on meeting conversations and more.

“Around the world, millions of people are using Zoom to connect with their colleagues and customers, but they could be getting so much more out of those conversations with the help of AI,” said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom. “AI Companion 3.0 will provide deeper insights from their conversations to help them get more done at work and drive better business outcomes, regardless of whether they’re working in Zoom Workplace, in person, or across compatible apps and integrations.”

Included in the new companies will be features like photorealistic avatars in Zoom Meetings,  Real-time voice translation for Meetings that will allow participants to hear meeting speech in their preferred language, apps in Team Chat to help them more easily manage and discover Zoom Apps, and a personal favorite generative collaborative whiteboards.