ZOOM
The meeting ended. But Zoom didn’t
Zoom has announced AI Companion 3.0, an update to its AI assistant as the company continues to expand beyond video meetings.
The release adds AI-powered personal workflows (in beta), new features coming to Zoom Docs, and a redesigned web interface aimed at helping users organise work and manage follow-ups more easily.
AI Companion 3.0 runs on Zoom’s federated AI setup, combining Zoom’s own language models with third-party models from OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as open-source options such as NVIDIA Nemotron.
This allows Zoom to use different models for different tasks, while improving transcription accuracy and how information is pulled from meetings and documents.
The new web-based interface, available at ai.zoom.us, connects directly to Zoom activity.
It turns meetings, chats, and documents into summaries, plans, and drafts without requiring manual uploads or detailed prompts.
Some features are available to Zoom Workplace Basic users, with a standalone AI Companion option priced at $10 per month.
In short:
AI Companion 3.0 adds agentic AI features across meetings, documents, and daily work.
Zoom uses a mix of its own, third-party, and open-source AI models.
A new web interface and standalone pricing make the tool more accessible.
From calls to clarity
Zoom says customer data is encrypted in use and at rest, including data shared with third-party model providers, and that communications content is not used to train AI models.
The update also expands AI Companion’s ability to search meeting summaries, transcripts, notes, and connected apps like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, with Gmail and Outlook support planned.
New tools help generate follow-up tasks, daily summaries, and draft documents, alongside upcoming features for notes and task management.
Can I send AI to my meetings yet? - MV