As the race to embed AI into productivity tools intensifies, Dropbox is stepping up. On Thursday, the company announced a major upgrade to Dash, its AI-powered search and content assistant, first launched in 2023.
The biggest update? Dash now understands and searches across multiple content types — not just text. That means users can run natural language queries to find information within audio, video, and image files, unlocking previously hard-to-reach data across a company’s digital workspace.
Dropbox is also introducing people search, letting users quickly locate colleagues who’ve contributed to a particular project or who hold specific subject-matter expertise.
Dash isn’t just for surfacing files anymore — it now helps generate new content. Drawing on Dropbox’s AI summarization capabilities, Dash can pull insights from emails, meeting notes, and documents to draft:
Project plans
Memos
Presentations
Briefs
No more jumping between apps to copy, paste, and organize details. Dash becomes the bridge between information and output.
For business users, Dropbox has added new admin controls, giving IT teams the ability to exclude sensitive files from AI search results. This adds a layer of security and compliance for teams working with confidential or regulated data.
To make Dash more powerful across different workflows, Dropbox is adding support for popular communication and creative platforms, including:
Slack
Zoom
Microsoft Teams
Figma
Canva
Jira
This means Dash can now search and summarize content from across your ecosystem, making it a true central hub for workplace knowledge.
Dropbox’s upgrades reflect a broader shift in the productivity space: companies no longer just want AI to assist — they want it to create, connect, and act on insights. As newer and better AI models emerge, tools like Dash are racing to keep up, providing more value to users without pulling them away from their flow.
By adding broader search capabilities, smart content generation, and cross-platform integration, Dropbox Dash is becoming more than a search tool — it’s evolving into a full-blown AI productivity assistant for the modern workplace.