How Zoom's AI Features Can Help You Catch Up On Missed Meetings

Zoom is partnering with OpenAI to bring AI-generated summaries, message drafts, and more to its Zoom IQ AI-powered assistant. With this partnership, Zoom IQ can now summarize what you’ve missed in a meeting and allow you to ask further questions.

In addition to catch-up features, Zoom IQ can generate whiteboards based on text prompts and provide recaps of meetings, as well as summarize threads in Zoom Team Chat. It also lets you generate responses to your colleagues using AI.

Zoom is planning to roll out AI-powered message and email drafts on an invitation-only basis in April, and will introduce select Zoom IQ meeting summary features more broadly. The company is responding to new AI capabilities added by competitors like Google and Microsoft.

Zoom is also expanding its services to become an all-in-one productivity app. The new Calendar and Mail apps let you access your schedule and emails straight from Zoom, and you can email a meeting host to tell them you're running late or view important details about upcoming meetings.

Lastly, Zoom has added a new feature called Huddles, which is a video-enabled virtual coworking space. Like Huddles on Slack, you can quickly hop into video calls to ask questions or chat with a colleague. This feature is available globally for users to request early access.