In its never-ending quest to be more than just a videoconferencing platform, Zoom recently announced that Zoom Team Chat gets a powerful AI upgrade in the latest iteration of the app. Your team can now fully customize their workspaces to match their preferences and use tools that help them communicate and collaborate more effectively. The upgraded tools eliminate time-wasting bottlenecks, so your people can maximize their time and be more productive.
The new features, available to all paid Zoom subscribers, include an upgrade to the Team Chat Sidebar and AI Companion integrations that make quick work of meeting transcripts, message summaries, and more.
AI Enhancements to Team Chats
If your employees use Zoom Team Chats, they’ll probably tell you that the interface is cumbersome and that communicating with their co-workers can be time-consuming and frustrating.
When Zoom Team Chats gets the powerful AI upgrade, the sidebar will be more intuitive and easier to navigate. Users can arrange the sidebar to fit their needs best, customizing tabs and setting notification preferences to keep their messages and workflows well organized. In short, finding and prioritizing messages is easier without endlessly scrolling through the chat to find what you need.
While the sidebar redesign and customization capabilities welcome changes that can increase your team’s productivity, the AI enhancements to the platform are game-changers. Highlights include:
- The option to use chatbots in AI Companion to identify and prioritize action items from the team chat
- The ability to find information faster using AI Companion in chat, documents, and SMS text messages
- Message summarization that captures the key points from designated chats and channels
Using Zoom Team Chat’s natural language processing tools, your team can request smart suggestions for action steps, conduct sentiment analysis to check the team’s pulse on new initiatives, and stay in the loop without dealing with an unwieldy chat.
Zoom touts these upgrades to Team Chats as a natural evolution of its total workplace suite, which includes Zoom Docs, Whiteboard, and Meetings. The enhanced features integrate seamlessly into the platform, making it a valuable tool for businesses with geographically diverse teams.
New Features for Developers
With the change to the sidebar, Zoom Team Chat gets a powerful AI upgrade. The new version also includes features to make the platform more attractive to developers. The updated sidebar can now support in-line code and code blocks, which helps keep code from getting lost in the rest of the conversation.
AI Enhancements Mark The Latest Stage in Zoom 2.0
Zoom publicly announced its goal to streamline work and save up to one workday per week with enhanced productivity tools. The changes to Team Chat are another step in that direction. When Zoom Team Chat gets a powerful AI upgrade, businesses will enjoy the benefits of sophisticated features that take teamwork and collaboration to new heights.
