Zoom brings its AI assistant to the web with access to free users

Zoom released its AI adjunct to the web contiguous arsenic portion of its AI Companion 3.0 release. The institution is besides allowing escaped users to entree the assistant’s features, specified arsenic summarizing the meetings, listing enactment items, oregon getting insights from meetings with limits.

The institution said that basal program users get to usage the AI companion wrong 3 meetings each month, which volition each see a gathering summary, in-meeting questions, and AI note-taking capabilities. Plus, they tin inquire 20 questions each done the broadside sheet and the caller web surface. They tin besides acquisition a $10 add-on program to entree AI companion features.

On the caller web surface, the institution is besides adding speech starter prompts to pass users astir what the adjunct tin do.

Zoom said that with this update, the adjunct tin besides retrieve accusation from third-party services specified arsenic Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, on with each information stored wrong Zoom. The institution said it volition soon adhd enactment for Gmail and Microsoft Outlook arsenic connectors.

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The AI Companion besides generates a regular reflection study that summarizes meetings, tasks, and updates for the day. What’s more, the adjunct tin make follow-up tasks and draught email messages.

Zoom is besides adding much features related to papers instauration and management. Through the caller companion update, users tin draught and edit documents based connected gathering details. The institution said that users tin commencement drafting documents wrong the companion aboveground and displacement the task to Zoom Docs and collaborate with teammates. It supports the export documents to MD, PDF, Microsoft Word, and Zoom Docs.

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Lijuan Qin, caput of AI merchandise astatine Zoom, said that the institution is an autarkic relation and has contextual gathering information puts it astatine an vantage compared to different competitors successful the productivity space. The institution said it uses a premix of its ain models on with models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Zoom, founded by CEO Eric Yuan (pictured above), became synonymous with video meetings during the pandemic. But it’s further productivity tools besides vie with the likes of Google, Microsoft, ClickUp, and Notion, with each of them trying to seizure much discourse astir the user’s data, including meetings.

Earlier this year, Zoom announced a cross-app notetaker that works with antithetic gathering apps arsenic good arsenic successful offline meetings, to vie with different productivity apps.