Zoom’s AI feature is actually useful

Zoom IQ. © Zoom Video Communications.

If you’re an AI user, you can now catch up on Zoom meetings you’ve missed. Zoom announced this feature in March, and it is finally available for a trial period for “select plan” users. Zoom IQ, the application’s AI assistant, can generate text summaries of meetings and send them to users through Zoom Team Chat or by e-mail, without recording the meeting itself. Or help yourself to a summary of the meeting’s intro if you happened to show up late. The Zoom IQ feature is available as a free trial “for a limited time only” to Zoom One subscribers (Enterprise Plus, Enterprise, Business Plus, Business, Pro) and in some Zoom subscriptions such as Enterprise Named Host, Enterprise Active Host, Zoom Meetings Enterprise, Zoom Meetings Business, and Zoom Meetings Pro. The company emphasized that users can opt out of sharing their data with Zoom and that client data will not be used to train third-party models.

It’s not clear what this feature will cost after the trial period ends, but Lacretia Taylor, spokesperson at Zoom, told The Verge that the company would announce pricing information in the coming months.

⇨ The Verge, Emma Roth, “Zoom can now give you AI summaries of the meetings you’ve missed.”

2023-06-05