Zoom
announced
new
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
features
for
its
platform
at
its
annual
Zoomtopia
event
on
Wednesday.
The
video
conferencing
platform
introduced
the
AI
Companion
2.0,
the
second
generation
of
the
AI
assistant
which
can
now
handle
more
tasks.
Available
across
Zoom
Workplace,
the
company’s
AI-powered
collaboration
platform,
it
can
now
access
Zoom
Mail,
Zoom
Tasks,
and
more.
Additionally,
the
company
also
launched
custom
AI
avatar,
which
will
let
users
record
a
video
to
generate
an
AI
clone
of
themselves
which
can
speak
in
a
similar
voice.
Zoom
AI
Companion
2.0
Introduced
In
a
newsroom
post,
the
company
introduced
the
new
AI
assistant
for
the
Zoom
Workplace
platform.
It
is
similar
to
the
Gemini
assistant
in
Android
smartphones
or
Copilot
in
AI
PCs.
The
AI
Companion
is
the
central
hub
for
most
of
the
AI
features
added
by
the
company.
Users
can
use
it
to
summarise
documents,
generate
text,
and
more.
With
the
second
iteration
of
the
AI
assistant,
Workplace
users
can
access
prompt
suggestions
in
the
side
panel
across
all
Zoom
platforms.
Users
can
also
expand
the
context
of
information
by
connecting
Gmail,
Microsoft
Outlook,
and
other
similar
apps.
The
assistant
can
also
summarise
unread
messages
within
a
Zoom
Team
Chat
channel
and
recap
email
threads
in
Zoom
Mail.
Within
Zoom
calls,
the
AI
assistant
can
now
answer
questions
outside
of
the
context
of
the
meeting
by
searching
the
web.
Hence,
participants
can
ask
general
knowledge
and
current
affairs
queries
to
the
AI
while
in
the
meeting.
AI
Companion
2.0
can
also
answer
questions
about
the
content
discussed
in
a
meeting
even
after
the
meeting
has
ended.
Further,
the
conversations
with
the
AI
are
now
available
to
refer
back
to
after
the
end
of
the
meeting.
Zoom
Introduces
Custom
AI
Avatar
Another
interesting
feature
unveiled
at
the
event
is
Custom
avatars
for
Zoom
Clips.
It
lets
users
record
a
video
clip,
which
is
then
processed
by
an
AI
model
to
generate
an
avatar.
Only
the
bust
of
the
avatar
is
visible
including
the
head,
shoulders,
and
upper
arms.
The
feature
can
also
generate
a
voice
similar
to
the
user.
If
a
user
adds
a
text
script,
the
AI
avatar
will
be
able
to
speak
and
lip
sync
to
it.
While
this
feature
was
showcased
at
the
Zoomtopia
event,
it
will
not
be
available
to
users
till
2025.