Zoom is making its AI assistant available online for free users

Zoom made its AI assistant available online today as part of the AI ​​Companion 3.0 release. The company also allows free users to access the assistant's features, such as summarizing meetings, viewing a to-do list and obtaining conclusions from meetings with limits.

The company said basic plan users can use the AI ​​companion for three meetings a month, each of which will include a meeting summary, mid-meeting questions and the ability to take AI notes. In addition, they can ask 20 questions each via the sidebar and the new web space. They can also purchase an add-on plan for $10 to access AI companion features.

On the new online platform, the company is also adding conversation-starting messages that inform users about the assistant's capabilities.

Zoom said that with this update, the assistant can also pull information from third-party services such as Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, along with any data stored on Zoom. The company said it will soon add support for Gmail and Microsoft Outlook as connectors.

AI Companion also generates a daily report summarizing meetings, tasks and updates for the day. What's more, the assistant can create follow-up tasks and email drafts.

Zoom is also adding more document creation and management features. With the new companion update, users can create and edit documents based on meeting details. The company said users can start creating documents on the companion surface, transfer the project to Zoom Docs, and collaborate with team members. Supports document export to MD, PDF, Microsoft Word and Zoom Docs formats.

Lijuan Qin, head of AI product at Zoom, said the company is an independent operator and has contextual meeting data, which gives it an advantage over other competitors in the productivity space. The company said it uses a mix of its own models along with models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Zoom, founded by CEO Eric Yuan (pictured above), has become synonymous with video meetings during the pandemic. But its additional productivity tools also compete with the likes of Google, Microsoft, ClickUp and Notion, each trying to capture more context around user data, including meetings.

Earlier this year, Zoom announced a cross-app notebook that works with a variety of meeting apps as well as offline meetings to compete with other productivity apps.