Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI assistants will lastly permit us to shorten our workweek. Talking on stage on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 convention on Monday, Yuan mentioned his videoconferencing product’s embrace of AI, which features a “digital twin” characteristic the place an AI avatar can converse for you.
Yuan started utilizing his AI avatar in an earnings name with traders this 12 months, demonstrating the know-how’s potential and talent to push the “boundaries of communication,” he stated.
At Disrupt, the exec emphasised spending loads of time speaking about AI and the correct merchandise to convey to market.
When requested about what he’s investing in, he responded, “AI, AI, and AI.” The know-how is the topic of multi-hour technique conferences, as Zoom believes in its potential to rework work.
Yuan additionally advised there have been many extra use circumstances for AI companions, past simply video conferencing stand-ins. He supplied a possible future state of affairs the place two enterprise execs had been negotiating a contract over Zoom.
As an alternative of being on a name for a very long time, they may ship their digital twins to work collectively on the plan first, Yuan stated.
He additionally spoke of how AI might help with e-mail, checking your messages for you, and assist you determine what was vital and in want of a response.
Plus, Yuan believes that AI might improve Zoom’s broader suite of options, which incorporates issues like a web-based whiteboard and collaborative docs.
“Right now, I would like a manually concentrate on all these merchandise to get work carried out. Finally, AI will assist,” Yuan stated.
“By doing that, we don’t have to work 5 days every week anymore, proper?… 5 years out, three days or 4 days [a week]. That’s a purpose,” he stated.