How to bring Steve Jobs to every meeting with Xuedong Huang, CTO of Zoom
Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast, the show where we discuss the latest developments in the technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most influential people in the industry.
In today's episode, we're happy to present an interview with Xuedong (XD) Huang, CTO of Zoom, recorded in Amsterdam at a Zoom event ahead of HumanX. XD has worked on AI for more than forty years, over thirty of them at Microsoft, where he founded the Speech Technology Group and became CTO of Azure AI. He explains what he calls C to C, Zoom's shift from conversation to completion, and why he says My Notes and ZoomMate are like bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting you attend.
We also get into why Zoom runs models from OpenAI and Anthropic alongside its own small language model, an approach XD compares to a panel of gymnastics judges, and why the speech technology behind My Notes is now open to other companies through the Scribe API. XD shares how he uses AI in his own meetings, why the language barrier is still not solved, and his closing take: the more AI slop people have to deal with, the more valuable a face-to-face conversation becomes.
Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at contact@thenextweb.com.
In today's episode, we're happy to present an interview with Xuedong (XD) Huang, CTO of Zoom, recorded in Amsterdam at a Zoom event ahead of HumanX. XD has worked on AI for more than forty years, over thirty of them at Microsoft, where he founded the Speech Technology Group and became CTO of Azure AI. He explains what he calls C to C, Zoom's shift from conversation to completion, and why he says My Notes and ZoomMate are like bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting you attend.
We also get into why Zoom runs models from OpenAI and Anthropic alongside its own small language model, an approach XD compares to a panel of gymnastics judges, and why the speech technology behind My Notes is now open to other companies through the Scribe API. XD shares how he uses AI in his own meetings, why the language barrier is still not solved, and his closing take: the more AI slop people have to deal with, the more valuable a face-to-face conversation becomes.
Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at contact@thenextweb.com.
