By futureTEKnow | Editorial Team
The digital office just became even more streamlined. Starting July 2025, Slack has rolled out new AI-powered features designed to simplify how teams track conversations, meetings, and essential information. Here’s a look at what these tools do, why they matter, and how they fit into the future of collaborative work.
Ever returned to a channel cluttered with endless replies? Slack’s new thread summarization lets you open any thread and generate a concise summary with a single click. This feature is available on both desktop and mobile, allowing users to quickly absorb key points—whether catching up after time off or joining a fast-paced discussion. Users can select the time frame they want summarized, from the last few messages to extended periods.
Forget jotting down action items while trying to participate. With AI Notes, any team member can start automated meeting note-taking during a Slack huddle. The AI transcribes the conversation in real time, capturing key takeaways, attendee lists, and action items. Once the meeting ends, everything is shared in a collaborative canvas in the huddle thread, giving your team a single source of post-meeting truth.
Notes can be started manually or set to trigger automatically for every huddle in a channel.
All attendees are notified when notes begin, stop, resume, or are deleted.
You can review, share, or delete notes at any time, ensuring privacy and relevance for your workspace.
Information overload is real. Slack now generates morning summaries—personalized digests that highlight key updates from channels you select. These recaps help users stay informed without constantly checking messages, reportedly saving the average user over an hour per week
Gone are the days of hunting down documents scattered across cloud drives and chats. Slack’s upgraded search engine allows users to ask questions naturally (“How did the Q2 project wrap up?”), surfacing answers pulled from Slack, connected apps, and documents. Permissions are respected at all times, so sensitive data remains protected.
Efficiency: AI summarizes sprawling threads, meeting conversations, and even intricate projects, slashing time wasted on manual recaps.
Clarity: New features like message explanation (hover to decode acronyms or jargon) and profile summaries make Slack more accessible, especially for new team members.
Control: Users always know when AI note-taking is active and can opt out or delete records if needed, balancing automation with privacy.
Slack’s internal research reveals a staggering 233% jump in daily AI usage among full-time workers in the first half of 2025. Users report increased competitiveness, productivity, and job satisfaction—all by working smarter, not harder.
Most features, including thread summaries and AI huddle notes, are available to all paid plans (Pro, Business+, Enterprise+), with gradual rollout beginning July 17, 2025.
Note that some advanced features, like enterprise search and translation, are limited to higher-tier plans or specific regions.
Slack’s push into embedded, context-aware AI isn’t just a trend—it’s the new normal for modern collaboration. By automating the grunt work and spotlighting the most important insights, these tools help teams focus on what really matters: moving projects forward, together.
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