Get started with Zoom’s exciting new AI Companion features!

Easily summarize meetings, share summaries of the meeting with others, ask Zoom in-meeting questions about what has already happened, and create and share cloud recordings that highlight key moments.

• To get started fast, read on! Follow links for specific in-depth instructions about a feature.
• For a general overview, visit Zoom AI Companion.
• For a Quick Start for meeting attendees, visit Quick Start for Meeting Attendees: Zoom AI Companion.

Generate and Share Meeting Summaries

By default, you a a host can activate a Meeting Summary during a meeting, and the summary content will be emailed to you after the meeting for review. To change this, see the Customize AI Companion Settings section below.

Start a Meeting Summary

• Start a Meeting Summary by selecting AI Companion in the toolbar, then Start summary. (Alternatively, select Turn on all to activate both Meeting Summary and Meeting Questions.) 
• A "binary star" or “AI spark” icon will blink at the top right of the meeting screen to show AI Companion is working.
• While meeting attendees get a notice that AI Companion features have been turned on, it’s still good practice to let them know verbally too.
• Zoom will email you the Meeting summary after the meeting. 
• Your attendees have the ability to ask you to turn off Meeting Summary. Doing so is at your discretion as host. If you choose to stop a summary, select AI Companion, then Stop Summary.

Review and Distribute a Summary

• After the meeting, Zoom will email the Meeting Summary to you for review before you share it with others.
• As with all machine-generated content, it is important you take care to ensure it is accurate. If acceptable, the summary email can be forwarded to others.
• Sometimes edits to the summary are required. Follow the link in the email, or go to your Zoom account’s Meeting Summary area to make edits. You’ll need to sign in to the Cornell Zoom website to access the summary.
• Hosts can also share copies of the edited summary from the Meeting Summary editor. Alternatively, cut and paste the summary text into an email and send to others.

• Summaries can be edited or shared from your Zoom account for 120 days after the meeting.
• Other you share the Meeting Summary with need to be signed into Zoom to open and view the summary on the Zoom website. Get the full details about sharing with people who don’t have Cornell’s Ithaca NetIDs at Share a Meeting Summary.

Ask AI Companion Meeting Questions

• To use this feature during meetings you host, activate it by selecting AI Companion , then Ask meeting questions. It can also be activated by selecting Turn on all, which will turn on both Meeting Questions and the Meeting Summary.
• Once Meeting Questions have been activated, attendees can click the AI Companion button to open the Meeting Questions panel and catch up with meeting content using one of the pre-set questions or typing one of their own.
• To restrict attendees from asking questions about content before they entered the meeting, for privacy or data security considerations, review the Zoom AI Companion setting Who can ask questions to AI Companion, and ensure it is set to All participants only from when they join. 
   

Create a “Smart” Cloud Recording Highlight Reel

• Hosts can turn on an option that lets them make Zoom “smart” cloud recordings that highlight key moments in the meeting.
• Hosts can then start a smart cloud recording during meetings. Afterward, the smart recording highlights can be reviewed and edited. Original and edited highlight reels can be saved and shared with others.
• As when starting a Meeting Summary, you should tell your attendees that you have turned on a Zoom AI Companion feature.

Customize AI Companion Settings

• Hosts who don’t want Meeting Summaries sent by email—or don’t want summaries created at all—can change Zoom settings for their meetings.
  
  See Enable or Disable Zoom AI Companion Features for full details about customizing your AI Companion settings.
• NOTE: Grayed-out options are locked by Cornell, usually to protect user security or privacy.

Accuracy, Privacy, and Security Considerations

Whenever using AI Companion, as with any generative AI tool, you should exercise caution and good judgment. AI isn’t always accurate and it doesn’t know the difference between restricted data and other content.

Review Zoom AI Companion Privacy and Security Considerations for some guidance on what to keep in mind.