The Meeting Summary with AI Companion feature uses Zoom’s generative artificial intelligence technology to allow meeting hosts to initiate an AI-generated summary of their meeting, making it easy to review key topics that were discussed.  

Meeting Summary with AI Companion is an optional feature that can be enabled or disabled by a host. Meeting Summary settings are managed by signing into the Zoom web portal online.  

When a host enables this feature in a meeting, they can control if and when the meeting summary is sent to participants. It can be automatically sent to all participants, or the host can choose to send the summary to select participants. 

Getting started with Meeting Summary 

A host and co-host can start and stop the meeting summary through the in-meeting controls at the bottom of the Zoom meeting window. The meeting summary begins when the host or co-host clicks the summary button.  

By default, the setting “Automatically start Meeting Summary for all meetings I host” is disabled. Prior to a meeting, the host can change their meeting settings via the Zoom web portal to enable that meeting summaries start as soon as their meetings begin. After the meeting summary is started, all participants will see a notification. The host and participants must be signed in to their Zoom account during the meeting to automatically receive the summary via email.  

Any meeting participant can request a meeting summary for the current meeting. The host will receive an in-meeting request to start meeting summary and can enable or deny the request.   

Manage Meeting Summary settings  

1. Log in from your Zoom sign-in website. 
2. Click Settings. 
3. Click the AI Companion tab. 
4. Under Meeting, click the Meeting Summary with AI Companion toggle to enable or disable it. 
5. If a verification dialog displays, click Enable or Disable to verify the change. 
6. (Optional) Select the checkbox next to Automatically start Meeting Summary for all meetings I host to have Meeting Summary enabled for all meetings you host. 
   Note: This does not require the host to be present, as the Meeting Summary generation will begin as soon as someone starts your meeting. 
7. Under the Share summary with section, select Only me (meeting host), Only myself (meeting host) and meeting invitees in our organization, or All meeting invitees including those outside of our organization. 
   Note: “Meeting invitees” only includes participants who were originally invited to the meeting. Participants joining the meeting ad hoc (through the in-meeting contact invitation or a sharing the join link) will not receive the summary. 
8. Click Save to confirm your changes. 

Start Meeting Summary as the host 

1. Start a meeting. 
2. On the in-meeting controls, click Summary. The meeting summary will begin to be generated, and participants will see a notification informing them that Meeting Summary is active. 
3. You can click Stop Summary to end the summary feature at any during the current meeting. Once the meeting has ended, the meeting summary will be finalized and sent to the host for review. 

Request Meeting Summary as a participant 

1. Join a meeting. 
2. In the meeting control toolbar, click Summary.  
3. Click Send Request. 
   The request will be sent to the host for approval. 

View Meeting Summary via email 

If automatic meeting summary is enabled, it will be emailed to the host and all participants. If only host summary is enabled, only the host will be emailed the meeting summary and can send the summary manually via email or the Zoom web portal online. 

1. Open your email inbox. 
2. Find and select the email with the same subject as the meeting topic to view the summary. 
3. (Optional) From the body of the email, click Edit Summary Here. You will be prompted to sign in to your Zoom account (if you are not already) to continue editing the summary through the web portal. 
    Note: Only the host has the Edit Summary Here option. 

 Share, edit, and delete Meeting Summary via web portal 

1. Log in from your Zoom sign-in website. 
2. In the navigation menu, click Meeting Summary with AI Companion. 
3. In the My Summaries tab, select from the list to access the meeting summary, enter a meeting topic or meeting ID, or select a date range to search for a specific meeting summary. 

 The selected meeting summary will be displayed. Choose from the following options: 

• Share: Send the summary through email. You will be prompted to enter one or more email addresses or contact names, then click Share. 
• Edit: Modify the summary and then click Save. 
• Delete: Permanently delete the summary. 
  Note: This action cannot be undone and the deleted summary cannot be restored. 

Note: Zoom does not use any customer audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments, or other communications-like content (such as poll results, whiteboard, and reactions) to train Zoom’s or its third-party AI models.