Zoom debuts new agentic AI skills and agents for Zoom AI Companion

Bahrain News Gazette

17-03-2025

Zoom AI Companion expands agentic skills across the entire Zoom platform, using reasoning and memory to take action and orchestrate task execution, conversational self-service, custom agent creation, and more
More than 45 new innovations announced, including AI enhancements for Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone, Zoom Team Chat, Zoom Docs, and Zoom Contact Center, help users get more done, do their best work, and strengthen relationships
New Zoom customer experience (CX) innovations include next-generation enhancements to Zoom Virtual Agent chat and the introduction of Virtual Agent for voice, AI intent routing capabilities, and Advanced Quality Management
ORLANDO, Fla., March 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today
Zoom Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ZM) unveiled agentic AI Companion capabilities, new Zoom AI Companion skills, and AI updates across its platform, including Zoom Meetings, Zoom Team Chat, Zoom Docs, Zoom Phone, Zoom Whiteboard, Zoom Contact Center, industry solutions, and more.
'AI Companion is evolving from a personal assistant to being truly agentic, which signals a major leap forward in how AI can enhance productivity and collaboration at work,' said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom. 'We're delivering value for our customers through AI agents and agentic skills that solve real customer problems, helping them connect, collaborate, and get more done, all within the Zoom platform our users trust and love.'
'We've been using Zoom AI Companion since it became available, and I've seen firsthand how it has transformed our academic and administrative operations,' said Steven Carroll, chief information officer at Saint Leo University. 'This technology isn't just about efficiency; it allows our employees to spend less time on manual tasks and more time on meaningful collaboration, and focus on what matters most: supporting our students' educational journey.'
AI Companion takes action with AI skills and agents
Zoom is elevating AI Companion across its entire platform through AI agentic skills, agents, and models to deliver high-quality results, help users improve productivity, and strengthen relationships.
AI Companion will help users get more done by executing on their behalf and managing multi-step actions with the knowledge of which agents and skills to tap into using
reasoning
and
memory
to make decisions, solve complex problems, and learn over time, along with
task action
and
orchestration
to execute and complete tasks.
Additional new agentic skills
include
calendar management
to help schedule meetings and find a time that works for everyone,
clip generation
for fast clip creation,
writing assistance
for advanced document creation, and more.
AI Companion will also extend to specialized agents that power Zoom Business Services. For customer self-service, Zoom Virtual Agent leverages memory and reasoning skills to deliver empathetic and contextual conversations and task action to resolve complex issues from start to finish. With AI Studio, users can effortlessly create and deploy customizable virtual agents (available in beta later this spring). Zoom Revenue Accelerator users will also be able to benefit from a specialized agent for sales in the coming months to help increase revenue through automated insights, personalized outreach and enhanced prospecting.
Coming soon, with Zoom's open platform, users will be able to interact with
third-party agents
such as ServiceNow AI Agents and create their own
custom agents
with specific skill sets to address unique needs, such as streamlining sales RFPs or IT and HR service requests. AI Companion will know when to work with third-party and custom agents to take action and complete tasks.
Custom AI Companion add-on
will allow organizations to customize AI Companion with AI Studio by tailoring it to address their unique needs and drive efficiency.
Organizations will be able to create
custom meeting templates
and
custom dictionaries
with vocabulary unique to their business or industry, incorporate information from their own data sources, including compatible third-party applications, and use AI Studio to expand AI Companion's knowledge and skills to help drive decisions and actions and complete tasks.
Users will have access to a digital
personal AI coach
and
custom meeting summary templates
that will allow users to structure meeting summaries for specific industry verticals or use cases, such as one-on-one meetings, customer intake, or brainstorming meetings.
Users will also have access to
Custom Avatars for Zoom Clips
to help scale video clip creation and avoid multiple takes by using a personalized AI-generated avatar to create clips with a user-provided script. Custom Avatars will be included in the Custom AI Companion add-on and will also be available for purchase separately.
The Custom AI Companion add-on is expected to be available for purchase in April for $12 per user per month (personal coach is expected to be available in June).
As part of Zoom's federated approach to AI, the Custom AI Companion add-on will incorporate Small Language Models (SLMs) alongside Zoom's third-party LLMs to deliver industry-leading performance and cost-effectiveness for modern businesses. Zoom's new SLMs are trained with extensive multilingual data, optimized for specific tasks to perform complex actions, and well-positioned to facilitate multi-agent collaboration.
Get more done with AI Companion
With new agentic skills, AI Companion can help users get more done, identify and execute tasks, manage meetings, and more. AI Companion's agentic skills work across the platform to help reduce manual work so users can focus on what matters most.
Zoom Tasks with AI Companion
will help users surface, complete, and manage tasks across Zoom Workplace by automatically detecting action items in meeting summaries, chats, and emails, and completing tasks like scheduling follow-up meetings or generating documents from meetings. Tasks will be available in a new tab within Zoom Workplace and can be embedded into a Zoom Doc, creating a central repository to track personal, team, and project tasks from creation to completion. Zoom Tasks is expected to launch at the end of March.
Meeting agendas with AI Companion,
expected to launch in May, will help users stay organized by using templates or recent agendas to provide recommended content. Hosts will be able to add an agenda timer to sections to keep meetings on track and receive AI-generated live notes during the meeting. After the meeting, hosts will be able to easily share the summary and action items.
Live notes for Meetings and Phone
, expected to launch in May, will provide real-time summaries during a meeting or phone call to help users catch up quickly, stay on track, focus on real-time topics connected to the agenda, and track updates live.
AI Companion for Zoom Phone
can now generate voicemail summaries and support the
Zoom for Microsoft Teams app
. Zoom Phone calls within Microsoft Teams can generate AI Companion call summaries, and prioritize and extract tasks from voicemails.
A new
voice recorder
on the Zoom Workplace mobile app, expected to launch in late March, will transcribe, summarize, and capture action items with AI Companion and create high-quality recordings for in-person conversations, so users can connect without taking notes.
AI Companion for Workspace Reservation
will show in-office workers when colleagues are expected to be in the office, recommend which days to go into the office based on scheduled meetings and their teammates' scheduled in-office days, and have AI Companion proactively book a desk or a Zoom Room for them. These updates are expected to launch in May.
AI Companion helps users do their best work and get better results
Zoom Docs
helps workers create high-quality content more efficiently by providing AI Companion writing assistance, as well as internal and external information search capabilities to help maximize productivity and streamline workflows.
Zoom Docs will have enhanced AI Companion capabilities with
advanced references and queries
that will be able to help a user create a writing plan based on the context, search internal and external information for references, and aggregate them into a high-quality business document based on user instructions. Advanced references and queries are expected to launch in June.
Users can prompt AI Companion to automatically create
data tables
, including from meeting summaries, so that content may be more easily digested and organized in a table format. AI Companion will be able to automatically label the columns so users can quickly see highlights and automate information like categorization and summarization for each record. This feature is expected to be available in July.
Zoom also announced
Zoom
Drive
, a central repository for meeting and productivity assets such as Zoom Docs, that will make it easier to find and access assets across Zoom Workplace. Zoom Drive is expected to launch in May.
Zoom AI Companion continues to be included at no additional cost for customers with the paid services in their Zoom user accounts. Specialized AI Companion capabilities, custom agent configurations, and third-party agents may cost an additional fee or be subject to separate pricing.
Visit the
Zoom newsroom
for more information on Zoom's approach to agentic AI and Zoom Workplace enhancements.
Strengthen relationships with Zoom Business Services
The Zoom Business Services suite for marketing, customer care, and sales includes AI-first solutions that are tightly integrated with Zoom Workplace and designed to help customer-facing employees strengthen customer relationships and improve customer experiences.
Zoom Customer Experience (CX)
Zoom is bringing agentic skills to Zoom Contact Center with specialized AI agents to help revolutionize customer experiences, empower customer service agents, and enhance self-service interactions while maintaining the importance of human connections.
New generative AI advancements with agentic AI skills will introduce the next evolution of self-service.
Zoom Virtual Agent
will offer more natural language skills, handle complex queries, and execute tasks on behalf of customers. To extend these capabilities, Zoom Virtual Agent will be available for voice and chat channels (planned for qualified customer beta later this spring), offering a seamless, always-on experience.
AI-intent routing
(expected to launch at the end of March), will intelligently route customers to the best-suited agent based on real-time intent detection.
With
Advanced Quality Management,
contact center teams will have access to
Auto Quality Management
, which will use AI to automatically score up to 100% of customer interactions, and
Ask Quality Management
, which will deliver a conversational interface for supervisors to directly query transcripts and uncover valuable insights. Advanced Quality Management is expected to launch in May.
Visit the
Zoom newsroom
for an in-depth look at Zoom Business Services enhancements, including updates for Zoom Revenue Accelerator and Zoom Events.
Zoom delivers powerful industry-specific solutions
Zoom Workplace for Frontline,
expected to launch in April, is a purpose-built, AI Companion-based, mobile solution that gives frontline workers the on-shift communications and work management tools needed to be more connected and efficient in their daily tasks.
Zoom Workplace for Clinicians
, expected to launch at the end of March, is designed to streamline clinical workflows. It enables doctors, nurses, and practitioners to dedicate more time to patient care and engagement rather than spending valuable time on documentation and administrative tasks. Zoom Workplace for Clinicians will be able to automatically generate clinical notes in the office or a virtual Zoom telehealth appointment so that physicians can focus on what matters most: their patients.
Zoom Workplace for Education
will provide AI Companion-generated lecture summaries with supporting material that teachers can use to generate assignments and students can use to create study materials (expected to be available in May). Later this year, a live notes feature will enable students to add comments, reactions, and highlights to the live transcripts to engage with lecture content during and post class to further learning.
The Zoom hardware certification program
is expanding solutions to support industry verticals beginning in April:
For education customers, Zoom will add select document cameras, which are intended to capture documents or objects on a table that can be shared in a Zoom virtual meeting or class, to its certified hardware portfolio.
For healthcare customers, Zoom will certify select cameras for use in patient rooms, enabling remote observation of patients.
Some features and products may not be available for all regions and industry verticals.
About Zoom
Zoom's mission is to provide an AI-first work platform for human connection. Reimagine teamwork with Zoom Workplace — Zoom's open collaboration platform with AI Companion that empowers teams to be more productive. Together with Zoom Workplace, Zoom's Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center, strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle. Founded in 2011, Zoom is publicly traded (NASDAQ:ZM) and headquartered in San Jose, California. Get more information at
zoom.com
.
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