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Zoom’s AI-powered avatars, which can represent users in online meetings, will be available for use later this month, the company announced Tuesday, along with news of other tools and services. Notably, the company offers its own applications for AI-based documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, an AI agent builder for non-technical people, and a voice translator for meetings.
The company said its AI-powered productivity apps will be available as a preview in the spring.
artificial intelligence avatars, Announced last yearshe Which is long awaited Realistic avatars that can mimic your appearance, expressions, lip and eye movements. Designed to mimic your actions when you’re not “camera ready,” Zoom says the avatars will work in online meetings as well as in its asynchronous video messaging product.
Along with AI-powered avatars, the company is adding deepfake detection technology to meetings to alert participants of possible audio or video spoofing.
Other new tools include a range of AI-powered office applications, including AI-based documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Based on meeting transcripts and data from other services, users can create draft documents or spreadsheets with data or presentations, the company said.
Additionally, Zoom’s AI Companion 3.0 is now coming to the desktop app, after first arriving on the web in September. The number of monthly active users of the AI Companion app more than tripled in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 year-over-year, the company said.
Workvivo, an employee communication app, will also get an AI assistant. This assistant can connect to services like Slack, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Gmail, Outlook, Asana, and Jira to allow users to ask questions across different knowledge bases.
Zoom isn’t alone in creating AI-first office software. There are well established companies like Canvas And new startups like Context Which is trying to do the same thing. Slack was also owned by Salesforce Adding more artificial intelligence features For its group communication applications.
To address the growing interest in agent workflows, users can now create custom agents using natural language prompts that work across skins. After creation, users can mention their agents in chat to complete tasks.
For developers, Zoom is creating speech, vision, and language intelligence APIs that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
Additionally, the company is updating its chat experience using artificial intelligence to display key ideas and summarize topics.
To complement these changes, Zoom says it plans to unify the design across different surfaces, such as desktop, mobile, and web, to make it easier to access AI tools like notes, meeting questions, and transcripts.