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Slack’s new generative AI features include thread summaries and conversational search

Slack has finally unleashed its generative AI toolset, which auto-generates thread summaries and channel recaps. There’s also daily channel summaries and conversation-based search.

This lets users “get up to speed on any thread in just one click.” Now you can safely ignore that one colleague who messages you eight times in a row when one short paragraph would absolutely suffice. This allows you to ask a question using natural language instead of using Slack’s pre-existing search bar to slowly crawl through previous chats. To that end, the company is prepping more native AI features, including the ability to generate personalized summaries of channels that users don’t check daily but want to keep an eye on.

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