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The Read AI Chrome Extension can now detect Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings in real-time, just like it already does with Google Meet.

In an industry-first launch, Sales AGI analyzes a sales team's activities to provide personalized, actionable recommendations directly to HubSpot and Salesforce.

Read AI took the pulse of knowledge workers in one of our fastest-growing markets.

Starting today, Read AI is giving free unlimited access to the world's most powerful large language models for paid customers.

David Shim, Co-Founder and CEO of Read AI, was named CEO of the Year by GeekWire.

We’re excited to announce that we will offer 75% off annual plans to new customers across Latin America starting now and for the entire month of May 2025.

With Search Copilot integrated into Slack and Microsoft Teams, you can get instant, conversational answers without leaving your workflow.

Today Read AI introduces Search Copilot, a first-of-its-kind, AI-powered search and discovery engine powered by our Free Agent technology. It retrieves insights from meetings, emails, chats, workflows, cloud storage, and CRMs, and provides answers in seconds.

These patents highlight Read’s groundbreaking advancements in multi-modal AI and its commitment to empowering teams with actionable insights that transform the way they work. 

Following an uptick in customer demand, Read AI is happily introducing four new languages: Korean, Polish, Catalan, and Ukrainian.

Do you need extra time to jump into work every morning? You’re not alone. It takes around 15 to 40 minutes on average for employees to settle in before they can start deep work. Read AI can cut that time in half.

May 2025 be the year of fewer meetings with Read AI’s one-click sharing and groups. With this update, it’s easy to be in the know without actually being there. 

Read AI just launched a major update to our native app for Microsoft Teams, making it easier than ever to use Read with Teams.

Read AI users can now sync meeting reports directly to Notion!

Read AI for Gmail is a free Chrome Extension that integrates directly into Gmail to streamline email management by surfacing relevant information from meetings, emails, and messages. For example, if a client emails about a project update, Read AI can instantly pull in related content from a recent meeting, and draft a response without searching through multiple platforms.

Announcing Read AI's integration with Confluence and Jira

With the new Read AI app, you can instantly capture audio from your iPhone and view a real-time AI-generated transcript and summary with Read AI.

You can now connect Read AI directly to Salesforce to sync all of your Meeting Reports!

Read's latest integration allows you to connect directly to your HubSpot account to automatically save meeting notes, and more!

Read's latest release includes multiple exciting new features, like transcript editing, better speaker detection, and Readouts based on email labels.

Read introduces gen AI summaries, “Readouts”, for email and messaging on Gmail, Outlook, Teams, and Slack. Read’s intelligent agents work quietly in the background, enabling your meetings, emails, and messages to interact with each other. This connected intelligence unifies your communications and empowers you and your team with personalized, actionable briefings, tailored to your needs and priorities.

Read AI add language support for French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

Read releases several powerful new features to provide better control and collaboration when sharing meeting reports.

Read AI launches its Large Meeting Models (LMMs) to expand the context window from a single meeting to thousands of meetings.

Today, we're excited to introduce three of the most requested features from our users! Whether you're looking to streamline your meeting reporting, integrate with your favorite productivity tools, or receive meeting recaps effortlessly, Read has you covered (uploads, Slack and Zapier integrations).

Based on your feedback, Read AI is excited to announce two new features to make finding and organizing your meetings easier! Advanced Search and Meeting Tagging.

Read introduces a For You page for meetings, enabling automatic topic discovery across your meetings. By incorporating your verbal and visual cues, Read can accurately identify the content that matters most to you, and provide an automatic summarization of those topics on your For You page.

Read is excited to announce the ability to integrate our meeting summaries into any app or platform that supports webhooks. We believe that meeting summaries, transcripts, and highlights are meant to be shared in order to make meetings more efficient and effective. 

Read is excited to announce that meeting playback and highlights are now available for Google Meet. Read’s AI-powered summary feature squeezes a meeting into a two-minute clip to create the SportsCenter for meetings

Being a better speaker requires practice, but who has the time? Read solves this issue by taking your existing meetings and applying AI to generate feedback to make you a better speaker in your next meeting.

Read AI introduces Highlights, through which a 60-minute recording of a meeting is automatically converted into a 2-minute video highlight reel. By integrating large language models with video, Read identifies the most important moments in a meeting based on not just the words, but the reaction from the participants.

Read has introduced more robust report sharing that eliminates the meeting to talk about the meeting, by delivering concise insights that can be consumed in less than 2 minutes to attendees and interested parties.

Read’s Meeting Tools & Metrics (formerly Meeting Navigator for Zoom) continues to be popular among Zoom customers and featured on the Zoom App Marketplace. Today, Read is excited to announce that we’ve been selected by Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to be featured in Zoom curated Essential Apps.

Read is excited to announce the launch of three new products: Read Recommendations, Read Smart Scheduler, and Read Workspace. In addition, Read is introducing meeting playback and augmented reality.

Read makes it easy to communicate if a meeting is a good or bad use of your time by delivering a meeting recap email after each meeting, which includes a thumbs up or thumbs down feedback option.

The modern meeting is broken, yet we see a 153% increase in meetings over the last two years. We’re piling bad meetings on top of bad meetings, with the hope that things will magically change using medieval solutions like “No Meeting Mondays”.

Transcription 2.0 for Google Meet delivers best-in-class transcription and introduces the concept of reactions into the transcript. Reactions in transcripts measure how the audience reacts to the speaker’s words, allowing a reader to contextualize the conversation. 

Read introduces the next generation of speech to text with Transcription 2.0, which augments traditional transcripts by highlighting moments based on engagement (high, low) and sentiment (positive, negative).

With the Chief Meeting Officer (CMO) Dashboard you will be able to see what actions you can take to improve your meetings, and the interactions you have with everyone you meet with each day.

Across 3MM+ Meeting Minutes Measured, Read finds 31% of Meetings Start Late, 24% of Participants are Disengaged, and 15% of Meetings Have Poor Sentiment.

Read Dashboard is now available on Zoom Apps as a free service! The in-meeting integration with Zoom brings real-time analytics on Engagement, Sentiment, and Talk Time into your next meeting. Read believes that shared metrics encourage collaboration across meeting attendees, resulting in more productive meetings.

Read is partnering with Webex by Cisco to deliver Read Dashboard accessible as an embedded app available directly within Webex. Webex users will have free access to real-time in-meeting analytics to understand “how the meeting is going,” versus “how the meeting went,” creating better and more productive meeting experiences.

Read AI, Inc. exits stealth mode with the launch of Read Dashboard, a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees. Read, which delivers better meetings through measurement, also announced a $10 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from PSL Ventures and notable angels. It is the company’s first financing round.