New Zoom AI feature will provide you with summaries of meetings you missed

Zoom, a video conferencing platform that allows users to connect with video, audio, and chat has developed two essential AI-based features: Meeting summary and Chat compose, in order to help teams increase productivity, manage daily responsibilities, and interact more efficiently. The feature is called ‘Zoom IQ.’

How to get the ‘Zoom IQ’ feature?

According to a statement on Zoom’s website, the feature, which the company initially revealed in March 2023 to compete with Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, and Slack, is now available as a trial for customers of ‘selected plans.’ Users of Zoom can now use AI to catch up on missed meetings.

With the help of Zoom IQ, hosts can now create meeting summaries and deliver them to users over Zoom Team Chat or email without actually recording the sessions.

Along with AI-generated meeting summaries, Zoom is introducing the capacity for AI to construct messages in Team Chat. The functionality makes use of OpenAI’s technology to generate messages ‘based on the context of a team chat thread’ and also allows you to edit the message’s tone or length before sending it.

All of these features enhance Zoom’s IQ assistant, such as the ability to produce meeting highlights and chapters. This includes the ability to use AI to create emails with context from previous meetings, phone conversations, and emails, as well as the ability to summarise discussions in Zoom Team Chat. In order to use these features, customers have to use the Zoom admin interface and choose to enroll in the free trials for each feature before they can use them.

Upcoming collection of Zoom’s AI features

Smita Hashim, chief product officer of Zoom, stated in a statement, "With the introduction of these new capabilities in Zoom IQ, an incredible generative AI assistant, teams can further enhance their productivity for everyday tasks, freeing up more time for creative work and expanding collaboration."

"Zoom is also developing a method to wisely acquire an in-chat overview of a meeting when you come late, produce whiteboard draughts with text prompts, and automatically organise thoughts into categories during brainstorming sessions using AI."

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For the time being, only Zoom IQ's meeting summaries and chat compose features are available as a free trial for a limited time to Zoom One (Enterprise Plus, Business Plus, Business, Pro) and some Zoom legacy bundles (Enterprise Named Host, Zoom Meetings Enterprise, Zoom Meetings Business, Zoom Meetings Pro) subscribers.

As part of its collaboration with OpenAI and Anthropic, a company that specialises in developing general AI systems , Zoom plans to release numerous additional AI-powered services in the near future.