Zoom Video Communications has launched Zoom Workplace, its collaboration and communications platform. The company has been going heavy on AI since the technology became a buzz word among investors and the general public. It has been launching various AI features and rebranded few. While many tools have an artificial intelligence system beneath, Zoom gives AI branding, with features like translation, summary and new ones getting an AI makeover. It also released novel functionalities.
Zoom has announced 40 new innovations, including the new Zoom AI Companion, personalised tool for automation, summary and other tasks. It also brought Team Chat, Events, and Ask AI Companion, which works across the platform.
“We have seen the positive impact that Zoom AI Companion has had on our business and our customers, transforming how we work by freeing up precious time for collaborative teamwork,” Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom was quoted as saying. “Zoom Workplace with AI Companion will help solve real customer problems by bringing the core collaboration solutions into a single AI-powered platform to help improve productivity, efficiency.”
For Zoom Meetings, users will see a new Meetings tab within the Zoom app that will allow users to collaborate before, during, and after meetings. It supports traditional calendar views and serves as the central place for agendas, recordings, and other shared assets such as documents, and AI Companion smart recordings, and meeting summaries.
Some of its updates are looking like Zoom is trying to be Slack. Dispersed teams and disconnected collaboration tools have created unwanted complexity — in the form of more meetings, siloed communication channels, and information overload, the company claims in its blog.
Zoom Workplace is, the company claimed, an AI-powered collaboration platform designed to help organizations reimagine teamwork by streamlining communications, increasing employee engagement, optimizing in-person time, and improving productivity.
Ask AI Companion will gather, synthesize, and share information from Zoom Meetings, Mail, Team Chat, Notes, Docs, and more.