Recent updates
- We added Grok Code Fast, a speedy model that excels at coding, but is also great for general tasks. It’s a great default choice, and we’ve made it the default for all users who have not yet changed their model.
- We added Nano Banana, Google’s state-of-the-art image model, to our menu of image generation models.
- We added a new tool for generating a 5 second video from an image. We currently use the Lucy model by Decart, and plan to add additional models.
- Sites are now publishable. Sites you create are private to you by default, but you can choose to make them public using the “Publish” button.
- Zo can now text and email you more flexibly. Previously, Zo could only reply to a text or email from you, or send you the result of a scheduled task. Now you can ask Zo to email you with results after working through something in a chat. Or, you can set up a scheduled task to look at a website, and only text you under certain conditions.
- You can now connect your Gmail account to Zo. You can choose to give Zo read-only access (the default), or allow Zo to send emails on your behalf.
- You can now convert Microsoft Word .docx files to Zo note files, which use the open, portable Markdown format.
- You can now right-click on a file or folder to open it in a new tab in your browser.
- When you search for files (by @-mentioning, or when using the command palette), we now use fuzzy search to make it easier to find what you’re looking for.
Sep 12, 2025
- You’ll notice many UX improvements throughout the experience. We’re always improving your computer’s look and feel, so please share feedback (you can reply to this email, join our Discord, or submit bug reports from your Zo).
- When you’re texting Zo, you can include images, or voice messages.
- We’re still improving Zo’s ability to handle text conversations and various attachment formats naturally.
- We published a guide on how to sync files between another computer and your Zo Computer.
- It takes a bit of set up (5-10 minutes), but it’s worth it.
- Zo now has the ability to text you: from a conversation, or from a scheduled task.
- If you’re chatting with Zo and want to send something to your phone, just ask Zo to text you.
- When you’re chatting with Zo about a PDF, Zo can now see and reference the exact page number you’re looking at.
- When you generate images with Zo, you can now choose between 3 orientations: square, portrait, or landscape.
- You can now add key-value data to the top of note files.
- This is the same as Obsidian’s “file property” feature. Just like in Obsidian, the data is stored in the markdown file’s YAML frontmatter.
- When you schedule tasks for Zo, you can now configure how you’re notified.
- After a task completes, you can receive a notification with Zo’s response via email, SMS, or none if you don’t want to hear about it.
- If you schedule a task and set the notification to None, you can prompt Zo to decide whether it should text you an update.
- We’ve improved Zo’s ability to search the web.
- Zo has a new “Research agent” tool, which it can use to conduct extensive research on the web and produce a report or structured data tables. It usually takes 30-60 seconds to complete.
- Zo has a new “Web research” tool, which we’re experimenting with as a more powerful default tool for searching the web.
- You may see Zo using a mix of “Web search” and “Web research” for most queries, and using the “Research agent” for complex queries.
- We’ve improved Zo’s ability edit files and perform complex coding tasks.
- Zo has a new “Coding agent” tool, which it can use for more complex coding tasks.
- Zo can now edit files faster.
- We added a viewer for SQLite files, so you can explore the tables in your database files.
- It’s easy to create a site that reads or writes data to a SQLite file (or any kind of file) on your Zo Computer.
- We now hide folders prefixed with periods by default.
- You can show them by going to Settings > Developer > “Show dot folders”
- You can now split the Terminal panel into two panes.
- In Settings > Developer, you can also enable “Terminal mode chat”, which lets you toggle your chat panel into a Terminal. You can use this to run Claude Code (or your AI CLI of choice) next to your files, instead of the Zo chat.