Zoom Upgrades AI Companion with New “Agentic” Features

Written By Tom Daccord

As reported by ZDnet, Zoom has upgraded its AI Companion with “agentic” features that take action for users. These new AI-agent-like features can create documents and video clips directly from meetings, organize tasks, and provide real-time summaries, as well as the ability to record, transcribe, and summarize in-person meetings.

A Custom AI Companion add‑on ($12/month) expands AI Companion across platforms like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams and includes personalized avatars for messaging.

Tom’s Take: With AI Companion, Zoom is clearly positioning itself to dislodge standalone productivity tools (like Otter.ai) by embedding autonomous agent-like workflows directly into its platform. In any event, Zoom-using schools will appreciate that the upgrade comes at no extra cost to the user and that AI Companion’s auto-recording, transcribing, and summarizing features can free up time for teachers to focus on pedagogical tasks.

Tom Daccord

Teachers are curious about ChatGPT and AI, but don't know what tools they should use and where to find them. In this website I introduce and review AI tools for education and offer strategies for incorporating them. I am an international expert in pedagogical innovation with technology and an award-winning educator with over 30 years experience. I taught high school in Canada, France, Switzerland, and the U.S. and have presented on education technology topics to over 10,000 educators around the world. Multilingual, I present in English, Spanish, and French

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