Zoom is launching AI-powered photorealistic avatars for meetings and asynchronous messaging later this month, alongside a new deepfake detection feature to alert users of potential impersonation. The company is also introducing a suite of AI productivity apps (Docs, Slides, Sheets) and an AI agent builder for non-technical users, while expanding its AI Companion to desktop and Workvivo.
Other announcements include custom AI agents created with natural language, updated developer APIs for speech and vision, and AI-enhanced chat summarization. Zoom aims to unify its design across platforms for easier access to these AI tools.
The main topics covered are the launch of AI avatars, new AI productivity applications, AI Companion expansion, deepfake detection, and platform-wide AI integration and design unification.
Zoom’s 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.
The company said its AI-powered productivity apps will be available as a preview in the spring.
The AI avatars, announced last year, are the long-anticipated photorealistic avatars that can mimic your appearance, expressions, lip and eye movements. Designed to mine 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.
Alongside the AI avatars, the company is adding a deepfake detection technology for meetings to alert participants of possible audio or video impersonation.
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.
In addition, Zoom’s 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’s monthly active users more than tripled in Q4 FY 2026 year-over-year.
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.
Zoom is not alone in creating AI-first office software. There are established companies like Canva and new startups like Context that are trying to do the same. Salesforce-owned Slack has also been adding more AI features to its team communication apps.
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 creations, users can mention their agents in chat to get tasks done.
For developers, Zoom is making its speech, vision, and language intelligence APIs that could be deployed on-prem or in the cloud.
Plus, the company is updating its chat experience by using AI to surface key insights and summarize threads.
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.
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