You can now create an AI avatar of yourself on Zoom

Zoom announced new artificial intelligence (AI) features for its platform at its annual Zoomtopia event on Wednesday. The video conferencing platform introduced the AI ​​Companion 2.0, the second generation of the AI ​​assistant that can now handle more tasks. It’s available through Zoom Workplace, the company’s AI-powered collaboration platform, and now has access to Zoom Mail, Zoom Tasks and more. In addition, the company has also launched a custom AI avatar, which allows users to record a video to generate an AI clone of themselves that can speak in a similar voice.

Zoom AI Companion 2.0 introduced

In a newsroom afterthe company introduced the new AI assistant for the Zoom Workplace platform. It is similar to Gemini Assistant on Android smartphones or Copilot on AI PCs. The AI ​​Companion is the central hub for most AI features added by the company. Users can use it to summarize documents, generate text and more.

With the second version of the AI ​​Assistant, Workplace users can access prompt suggestions in the side panel on all Zoom platforms. Users can also expand the context of information by connecting Gmail, Microsoft Outlook and other similar apps. The assistant can also summarize unread messages within a Zoom Team Chat channel and summarize email threads in Zoom Mail.

Within Zoom calls, the AI ​​assistant can now answer questions outside the context of the meeting by searching the web. Participants can therefore ask general knowledge and current affairs questions to the AI ​​during the meeting. AI Companion 2.0 can also answer questions about the content discussed in a meeting even after the meeting has ended. In addition, the conversations with the AI ​​are now available to look back on after the meeting.

Zoom introduces custom AI avatar

Another interesting feature revealed at the event is custom avatars for Zoom clips. It allows users to record a video clip, which is then processed by an AI model to generate an avatar. Only the bust of the avatar is visible, including the head, shoulders and upper arms. The feature can also generate a voice similar to the user’s. When a user adds a text script, the AI ​​avatar can talk and lip-sync to it.

Although this feature was demonstrated at the Zoomtopia event, it won’t be available to users until 2025.