Zoom AI Companion
For meetings
You know how much I love Otter and other AI transcription services. Enter Zoom AI.
What does Zoom AI Companion do?
It will catch you up if you are late for the meeting.
You can ask if your name was mentioned while you were running late.
You no longer need to find someone to fill you in. You can just read the meeting summary generated by AI Companion, which tells you who said what, highlights important topics, and outlines the next steps.
If the host does not have AI companion enabled for the current meeting, the cohost and any participants can request this be enabled for use.
The best part is it is included in your paid subscription to Zoom.
How to turn on your new Zoom AI companion:
Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit account settings.
In the navigation menu, click Account Management then Account Settings.
Click the AI Companion tab.
Under Meeting, click the Meeting Summary with AI Companion toggle to enable or disable it.
(Optional) Select the checkbox next to Automatically start Meeting Summary for all meetings I host to have meeting summary generation automatically start for meetings you host.
Under the Share summary with section, select Only me (meeting host), Only myself (meeting host), and meeting invitees in our organization, or All meeting invitees including those outside of our organization.
Note: Meeting invitees only include participants who were originally invited to the meeting, as participants joining the meeting ad hoc (through the in-meeting contact invitation or sharing the join link) will not receive the summary.Click Save.
How to turn off AI Companion in a meeting:
If the host wants to discuss topics informally without AI Companion running for in-meeting queries, they can disable AI Companion, so those topics will not be available for analysis and questions.
In the meeting control toolbar, click AI Companion.
The AI Companion panel will open on the right side of the meeting window.
In the top-left corner, click Disable.
You will be prompted to confirm disabling AI Companion in the current meeting.
Click Disable to confirm.
Once you experience an AI companion meeting you will not want to go back to the old way of hosting or attending meetings.
Have you tried Zoom AI Companion?
What other tools are you adding to your AI stack?