Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI assistants will lastly permit us to shorten our workweek. Talking on stage on the Trendster Disrupt 2025 convention on Monday, Yuan mentioned his videoconferencing product’s embrace of AI, which features a “digital twin” function the place an AI avatar can converse for you.
Yuan started utilizing his AI avatar in an earnings name with buyers this 12 months, demonstrating the expertise’s potential and talent to push the “boundaries of communication,” he stated.
At Disrupt, the exec emphasised spending a whole lot of time speaking about AI and the fitting merchandise to convey to market.
When requested about what he’s investing in, he responded, “AI, AI, and AI.” The expertise is the topic of multi-hour technique conferences, as Zoom believes in its potential to remodel work.
Yuan additionally prompt there have been many extra use instances for AI companions, past simply video conferencing stand-ins. He supplied a possible future state of affairs the place two enterprise execs have been negotiating a contract over Zoom.
As a substitute of being on a name for a very long time, they might ship their digital twins to work collectively on the plan first, Yuan stated.
He additionally spoke of how AI may help with electronic mail, checking your messages for you, and assist you determine what was vital and in want of a response.
Plus, Yuan believes that AI may improve Zoom’s broader suite of options, which incorporates issues like a web based whiteboard and collaborative docs.
“Immediately, I want a manually give attention to all these merchandise to get work achieved. Ultimately, 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 objective,” he stated.





