{"id":107578,"date":"2025-10-28T01:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107578\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:29:06","slug":"zoom-ceo-eric-yuan-says-ai-will-shorten-our-workweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107578\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoom founder and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/15\/zooms-eric-yuan-and-emergences-santi-subotovsky-on-navigating-the-second-act-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CEO Eric Yuan<\/a> believes that AI assistants will finally allow us to shorten our workweek. Speaking on stage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/events\/tc-disrupt-2025\/tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference<\/a> on Monday, Yuan discussed his videoconferencing product\u2019s embrace of AI, which includes a \u201cdigital twin\u201d feature where an AI avatar can speak for you. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yuan began <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/22\/after-klarna-zooms-ceo-also-uses-an-ai-avatar-on-quarterly-call\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">using his AI avatar in an earnings call<\/a> with investors this year, demonstrating the technology\u2019s potential and ability to push the \u201cboundaries of communication,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Disrupt, the exec emphasized spending a lot of time talking about AI and the right products to bring to market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked about what he\u2019s investing in, he responded, \u201cAI, AI, and AI.\u201d The technology is the subject of multi-hour strategy meetings, as Zoom believes in its potential to transform work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yuan also suggested there were many more use cases for AI companions, beyond just video conferencing stand-ins. He offered a potential future scenario where two business execs were negotiating a contract over Zoom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of being on a call for a long time, they could send their digital twins to work together on the plan first, Yuan said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also spoke of how AI could assist with email, checking your messages for you, and help you figure out what was important and in need of a response. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plus, Yuan believes that AI could enhance Zoom\u2019s broader suite of solutions, which includes things like an online <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zoom.com\/en\/products\/online-whiteboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">whiteboard<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zoom.com\/en\/products\/collaborative-docs\/\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday, I need a manually focus on all those products to get work done. Eventually, AI will help,\u201d Yuan said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy doing that, we do not need to work five days a week anymore, right?\u2026 Five years out, three days or four days [a week]. That\u2019s a goal,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI assistants will finally allow us to shorten our workweek.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,65826,61,60,6845,6846,80,36084],"class_list":{"0":"post-107578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eric-yuan","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-techcrunch-disrupt","15":"tag-techcrunch-disrupt-2025","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-zoom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}