Zoom AI Companion
by Zoom Communications, Inc.
Zoom AI Companion is a generative AI assistant built into Zoom Workplace. It can summarize meetings, identify action items, help draft chat and email messages, and answer questions using permitted workplace context.
Why Abandoned
Zoom continues to market AI Companion on its official product pages and announced AI Companion 3.0 in September 2025, with features rolling out across Zoom Workplace.
🩺 Health Signals
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- 200
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- Confidence
- 96%
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📅 Timeline
Zoom AI Companion launched
Zoom renamed Zoom IQ to AI Companion and introduced the assistant across the Zoom platform, including meeting summaries, in-meeting questions, and drafting support.
Zoom Workplace expanded AI Companion
Zoom Workplace became generally available, bringing AI Companion into a broader collaboration suite spanning Meetings, Team Chat, Phone, Whiteboard, and related work surfaces.
AI Companion 2.0 announced
Zoom announced AI Companion 2.0 with a persistent side panel, expanded contextual understanding, web access, and connections to workplace content.
AI Companion 3.0 announced
Zoom introduced AI Companion 3.0 as an agentic work platform designed to surface insights, prepare meeting content, and help complete tasks across Zoom Workplace.
🔄 Alternatives to Zoom AI Companion
Fireflies.ai
🟢ActiveAI notetaker that automatically records, transcribes, and analyzes voice conversations.
Bard / Gemini
🟢ActiveGoogle's AI assistant, originally Bard, rebranded to Gemini with multimodal capabilities.
Microsoft Copilot
🟢ActiveMicrosoft Copilot is a generative AI assistant available on the web, Windows, mobile devices, and Microsoft Edge. It answers questions, drafts and summarizes text, creates images, and can connect with Microsoft services.
Otter.ai
🟢ActiveAI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings in real-time.
🪦 Other dead Productivity tools
Xembly
🟠Possibly DeadXembly was a workplace productivity assistant that used AI to schedule meetings, take meeting notes, track action items, and automate related administrative work through calendar and messaging integrations.
Clara
🟠Possibly DeadClara Labs offered an AI-assisted scheduling service that coordinated meetings by email through a human-like virtual assistant. The company was acquired by TopFunnel in 2019, and its original service is no longer operating.
Storia AI
🟡Acquired / MergedStoria AI was an AI-assisted visual design and image-editing product developed by Storia. Its tools included text editing within generated images, object removal, background changes, and image cleanup.
Limitless
🟡Acquired / MergedLimitless is an AI-powered memory and meeting assistant from Limitless AI that records or imports conversations, produces transcripts and summaries, and lets users search and query captured information across its apps and wearable Pendant.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What is Zoom AI Companion?
Zoom AI Companion is Zoom's generative AI assistant for Zoom Workplace. It supports tasks such as meeting summaries, in-meeting questions, action-item identification, and message drafting, depending on the user's plan and administrator settings.
Is Zoom AI Companion free?
Zoom says AI Companion is included at no additional cost with eligible paid Zoom Workplace plans. Availability and individual features vary by account type, region, plan, and administrator configuration.
Can Zoom AI Companion summarize meetings?
Yes. When enabled, it can create meeting summaries and identify next steps or action items. Hosts and account administrators control availability, and participants may receive notices when AI features are active.
Does Zoom AI Companion use customer content to train AI models?
Zoom states that it does not use customer audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments, or other communications-like customer content to train Zoom's or third-party AI models.
What are the best Zoom AI Companion alternatives?
Relevant alternatives include Microsoft Copilot and Gemini for broad workplace assistance, plus Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai for meeting transcription, summaries, searchable notes, and follow-up workflows.