{"id":27376,"date":"2026-03-11T09:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=27376"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:56:42","slug":"zoom-introduces-an-ai-powered-office-suite-says-ai-avatars-for-meetings-arrive-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=27376","title":{"rendered":"Zoom introduces an AI-powered office suite, says AI avatars for meetings arrive this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoom\u2019s AI-powered avatars, which can represent users in online meetings, will be available to use later this month, the company announced on Tuesday, alongside news of other tools and services. Notably, the company is introducing its own AI Docs, Slides, and Sheets apps, an AI agent builder for non-technical people, and a voice translator for meetings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said its AI-powered productivity apps will be available as a preview in the spring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI avatars, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/17\/zoom-launches-a-cross-application-ai-notetaker-ai-avatars-and-more-in-its-latest-update\/\">announced last year<\/a>, are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/3\/24168733\/zoom-ceo-ai-clones-digital-twins-videoconferencing-decoder-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">long-anticipated<\/a> photorealistic avatars that can mimic your appearance, expressions, and lip and eye movements. Designed to mime your actions when you\u2019re not \u201ccamera-ready,\u201d Zoom says the avatars will work in online meetings as well as in its asynchronous video messaging product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside the AI avatars, the company is adding a deepfake-detection technology for meetings to alert participants of possible audio or video impersonation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other new tools include a suite of AI-powered office apps, including AI Docs, Slides, and Sheets. The company said that, based on meeting transcripts and data from other services, users can create document drafts, spreadsheets with data, or presentations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"484\" width=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?w=680\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3100375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=150,107 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=300,213 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=768,546 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=680,484 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=1200,853 1200w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=1280,910 1280w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=430,306 430w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=720,512 720w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=900,640 900w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=800,569 800w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=668,475 668w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=527,375 527w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=868,617 868w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=708,503 708w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Slides.jpeg?resize=50,36 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"wp-block-image__credits\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong>Zoom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Zoom\u2019s AI Companion 3.0 is now coming to its desktop app, after first arriving on the web in September. The company said that the AI Companion\u2019s monthly active users more than tripled in Q4 FY 2026 year-over-year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workvivo, its app for employee communication, will receive the AI assistant, as well. This assistant can connect to services such as Slack, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Gmail, Outlook, Asana, and Jira to let users ask questions across different knowledge bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoom is not alone in creating AI-first office software. There are established companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/10\/canva-is-adding-an-ai-assistant-coding-and-sheets-to-its-platform\/\">Canva<\/a> and new startups like <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/28\/context-gets-11m-to-build-an-ai-powered-office-suite\/\">Context<\/a> that are trying to do the same. Salesforce-owned Slack has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/17\/slack-bolsters-search-with-ai-adds-transcriptions-and-summaries-for-huddles\/\">adding more AI features<\/a> to its team communication apps.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"468\" width=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?w=680\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3100374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=150,103 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=300,206 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=768,528 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=680,468 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=1200,825 1200w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=1280,880 1280w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=430,296 430w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=720,495 720w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=900,619 900w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=800,550 800w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=668,459 668w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=545,375 545w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=897,617 897w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=708,487 708w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AI-Companion-tab-in-Zoom-Workplace.jpeg?resize=50,34 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"wp-block-image__credits\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong>Zoom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To address the growing interest in agentic workflows, users are now able to create custom agents using natural language prompts that work across surfaces. After creation, users can mention their agents in chat to get tasks done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For developers, Zoom is making its speech, vision, and language intelligence APIs that could be deployed on-prem or in the cloud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Plus, the company is updating its chat experience by using AI to surface key insights and summarize threads. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To complement these changes, Zoom says it plans to unify design across different surfaces, such as desktop, mobile, and web, for easier access to AI tools like notes, meeting questions, and transcriptions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/10\/zoom-launches-an-ai-powered-office-suite-says-ai-avatars-for-meetings-are-coming-soon\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom\u2019s AI-powered avatars, whi&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[2828,5140,3777,3933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}