
Zoom, a company that helped change the way people work during the COVID-19 pandemic, is continuing to reimagine the future of work by transforming itself into an AI-first communications and productivity platform. In this episode of NVIDIA's AI Podcast, Zoom CTO Xuedong (XD) Huang shares how the company is reshaping productivity with AI, including through its Zoom AI Companion 2.0, unveiled recently at the Zoomtopia conference. Designed to be a productivity partner, the AI companion is central to Zoom's federated AI strategy, which focuses on integrating multiple large language models.
Huang also introduces the concept of AUI, combining conversational AI and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to streamline collaboration and supercharge business performance.
The AI Podcast Zoom's AI-First Transformation to Boost Business Productivity, Collaboration Ep. 235
Time Stamps 6:49: The fundamental capabilities of generative AI
8:20: Zoom's approach to AI, including the use of small language models
11:20: Zoom's federated AI strategy, integrating multiple AI models
13:10: Introducing the concept of AUI.
20:00: Huang on how AI will impact productivity and everyday tasks
29:00: How Zoom helps business leaders understand AI and return on investment of AI projects
32:50: Huang's near-term outlook on the development of AI
You Might Also Like How SonicJobs Uses AI Agents to Connect the Internet, Starting With Jobs Ep. 233
Mikhil Raja, cofounder and CEO of SonicJobs, shares how the company has have built AI agents to enable candidates to complete applications directly on job platforms, without redirection, boosting completion rates. Raja delves deep into SonicJobs' cutting-edge technology, which merges traditional AI with large language models, to understand and interact with job application web flows.
Yotta CEO Sunil Gupta on Supercharging India's Fast-Growing AI Market Ep. 225
Sunil Gupta, cofounder, managing director and CEO of Yotta Data Services, talks about the company's Shakti Cloud offering, which provides scalable GPU services for enterprises. Gupta also shares insights on India's potential as a major AI market and the importance of balancing data center growth with sustainability and energy efficiency.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad on Empowering the Next Billion Software Creators Ep. 201
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, aims to bridge the gap between ideas and software using the latest advancements in generative AI. Masad talks about the future of AI and how it can function as a collaborator that can conduct high-level tasks and even manage resources.
Subscribe to the AI Podcast Get the AI Podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Music, Castbox, DoggCatcher, Overcast, PlayerFM, Pocket Casts, Podbay, PodBean, PodCruncher, PodKicker, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and TuneIn.
Make the AI Podcast better: Have a few minutes to spare? Fill out this listener survey.
More from Nvidia
08/08/2026
The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today - Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in Arm...
06/08/2026
Editor's note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners and enterprises can transform their workflows u...
06/08/2026
August is here, bringing 26 new games for GeForce NOW members.
Command the seas in World of Warships: Legends and discover what's next in the GeForce NOW ...
04/08/2026
Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory.
But rising needs aren't me...
04/08/2026
For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren'...
04/08/2026
Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance - now more than 120 organizations strong - are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the an...
30/07/2026
Back to school means balancing assignments, deadlines and downtime. GeForce NOW makes it easy to have it all.
With cloud gaming, everyday laptops used for clas...
28/07/2026
As a discerning AI investor who values style and substance, Sarah Guo knows this...
27/07/2026
Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government...
26/07/2026
The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet t...
23/07/2026
At this week's AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country's top business leaders and researchers are meeti...
23/07/2026
Lock in and load up the cloud. GFN Thursday brings fresh updates and new adventu...
22/07/2026
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system - bringing one...
22/07/2026
Before a healthcare robot can be useful in the real world, it has to learn how the physical world pushes back. Anatomy varies. Instruments bend, press, slip and...
21/07/2026
The AI era runs on AI infrastructure. Many of these advanced systems are built a...
21/07/2026
AI has entered the gigascale era.
The world's most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier mod...
21/07/2026
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is here, and it's going gigascale.
Vera Rubin NVL72 produ...
20/07/2026
At this year's SIGGRAPH conference, running through Thursday, July 23, in Lo...
20/07/2026
Erin Davis calls it the SuperDuperPOD. That's two things in one name: phar...
17/07/2026
Think of a professional athlete. What separates elite performers is what happens...
16/07/2026
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is coming to GeForce NOW at launch, with the playable...
15/07/2026
General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to ...
15/07/2026
Home to leading manufacturers, robotics pioneers, infrastructure builders and iconic gaming companies, of course, Japan is one of the world's centers of AI ...
14/07/2026
Editor's note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which exp...
14/07/2026
Power is AI infrastructure's inescapable constraint. How many tokens an AI factory can generate within a fixed power budget determines its revenue and profi...
09/07/2026
This GFN Thursday brings more games, more power and more ways to play on GeForce NOW.
The cloud gaming service is expanding with a new GeForce RTX 5080-powere...
08/07/2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top c...
07/07/2026
Max single-threaded CPUs at scale are a new category of CPUs built for the agentic AI era.
Across the creation and deployment of an agentic system, the CPU is...
06/07/2026
Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data a...
06/07/2026
Nations have long invested in domestic infrastructure to advance their economies, protect and use their data, and take advantage of technology opportunities in ...
06/07/2026
Every year, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) reveals where thousands of AI researchers have decided to put their work.
This year's ...
02/07/2026
Summer is heating up - and GeForce NOW is taking players along for the ride.
Start the month with Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains, bringing a galaxy fa...
01/07/2026
As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is ac...
30/06/2026
Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a dec...
30/06/2026
As organizations move from AI pilots to production AI factories, infrastructure decisions have shifted from peak chip specifications to cost per token: how many...
30/06/2026
Editor's note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on ...
29/06/2026
Anthropic's Claude models in Microsoft Foundry - hosted on Microsoft Azure a...
29/06/2026
Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir'...
25/06/2026
Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this week's GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more w...
23/06/2026
Building AI systems at scale is demanding, requiring low-latency inference, fast vector search, strong GPU price-performance and infrastructure that can grow wi...
23/06/2026
News Highlights:
NVIDIA technology runs 81% of the TOP500 and 90% of the systems new to the list.
26 systems on the TOP500 adopted the NVIDIA Grace CPU, up ei...
23/06/2026
Editor's note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which explores how the latest open models, datasets and training techniques help business...
22/06/2026
Telecom operators have seen remarkable returns from using generative AI to automate network management, customer care and back-office operations. Most of that i...
22/06/2026
The next era of AI will not be defined by compute alone. Its growth will be dete...
22/06/2026
Mission, Vision and Veritas - new Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) supercom...
22/06/2026
At the ISC conference running in Hamburg this week, NVIDIA is introducing new so...
22/06/2026
For the past two years, the U.S. National Science Foundation's National Arti...
22/06/2026
JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer at Germany's Forschungszentrum J lich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 Inf...
21/06/2026
Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA's newest AI servers can run their co...
18/06/2026
In a consequential grid infrastructure decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory C...