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Explore the key features that make Zoom AI Companion powerful for productivity workflows.
Automatically generates a structured post-meeting summary including key discussion points, decisions, and next steps, delivered to the host and shareable with participants.
Breaks recorded meetings into chapters, highlights, and action items, and produces a next-steps list so viewers can jump to the moments that matter instead of scrubbing the full recording.
Lets participants privately ask AI Companion questions during a live meeting â such as 'what did I miss?' or 'was my project mentioned?' â without disrupting the conversation.
Summarizes long chat threads, drafts replies with adjustable tone and length, and helps users catch up on unread channels across Zoom Team Chat.
Generates email drafts, suggests replies, and helps schedule meetings inside Zoom Mail and Calendar, reducing context switching between inbox and meeting workflows.
Creates initial whiteboard content, templates, diagrams, and categorized sticky notes from natural-language prompts to accelerate brainstorming sessions.
Granular policies to enable or disable AI Companion features by account, group, or user, with data-handling and retention controls for compliance-sensitive organizations.
AI Companion is included at no additional cost with eligible paid Zoom Workplace plans (such as Pro, Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise). Free Zoom accounts generally do not have access to AI Companion features.
Zoom has publicly stated that it does not use customer audio, video, chat, screen-sharing, attachments, or other communications-like content to train its own or third-party AI models. Customers retain control over their content.
If enabled by your admin, the meeting host can click the AI Companion button in the Zoom toolbar and start Meeting Summary. Participants are notified that AI Companion is active, and the summary is delivered to the host after the meeting ends.
Yes. With the in-meeting query feature, participants can privately ask AI Companion questions like 'what have I missed?' or 'was my name mentioned?' without interrupting the ongoing conversation.
By default, the meeting host receives the summary and can choose to share it with participants or other stakeholders. Admins can configure distribution and retention policies at the account level.
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Tutorial updated March 2026