Zoho is Taking on OpenAI and Google with its Own AI Model

Indian software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Zoho is taking on OpenAI and Google by working on its own large language model (LLM), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s PaLM 2 models. The project is being led by Zoho founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu and involves the company’s R&D team. We have been working on artificial intelligence for a decade now. When customers needed ChatGPT integration, we gave them that by integration with 13 of our apps, said Praval Singh, VP of marketing and customer experience at Zoho. The company is building proprietary large language models that can summarise, paraphrase, and adapt to new tasks. The move comes after OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman reportedly said an Indian startup with $10m in funding could not build a foundational LLM.