Zoom launched new products at its Zoomtopia conference on Wednesday, including an upgraded AI companion that can be used in a conference app, as well as the ability to add your own notes, an AI-powered conference schedule, and user-like AI AVATAR. With these features, the company aims to compete with vertical conference startups and productivity suites.
The company has long provided an AI robot that can record and transcribe Zoom meetings. However, inter-application meeting commemorators like Read AI,,,,, otter,,,,, firefly,,,,, Granolaand Circleback Great progress has been made. To solve this problem, Zoom is working with other platforms such as the Meet and Microsoft team and taking notes at face-to-face meetings.
The company is removing a page from the granola book so that users can take their own notes during the meeting, then perform AI expansion and construct later. Zoom also adds cross-platform search so that users can retrieve information from Google and Microsoft platforms.
New calendar-related features are also on the way. Through its AI companions, the company will allow users to find time periods that are suitable for all attendees. Also, it can recommend that you skip the new “free time” request. (It is worth noting that the calendar tool is launched Similar tools last year Resolve conflicts. )
The company is also proactive in meeting recommendations, such as suggested tasks and agenda items, and an AI group assistant in a group.
Zoom will introduce Realistic avatar It can also be on the platform – this Talked about it for a while. Earlier this year, the company’s CEO Eric Yuan used a On quarterly phone call. Zoom says avatars will mimic your actions on the video and are useful when you don’t use “camera ready.” But, there are many Risks involved in abuse of roles This could cause the company’s IT departments to scramble to shut it down.
The feature is expected to be used by consumers by the end of the year.
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The update will introduce the host’s ability to use zoom clips, its asynchronous video tools and AI avatars to say hello in the waiting room and explain the purpose of the meeting.
AI will also help with new live translation capabilities.
What’s more, Zoom is launching an upgraded web interface to highlight its AI companion more, and adds other AI-powered features such as “Writing Assistant for Drafts and Documents,” as well as adding in-depth research capabilities.
Additionally, Zoom will allow the creation of custom AI agents and support Model Context Protocol (MCP), support for higher bitrates and 60fps zoom meetings, and a new Zoom video management tool to manage video assets.
