Zoho Unveils Zia LLM to Power Smarter AI for Businesses

Zoho has rolled out its own large language model, Zia LLM, built fully on NVIDIA’s AI tech. Announced at Zoholics India, the model is tailored for real business tasks like summarizing data, code generation, and smart retrieval. With three models (up to 7B parameters), it balances speed, cost, and performance. Unlike ChatGPT, Zia runs on Zoho’s own servers, ensuring better data privacy. It also introduced Hindi-English speech recognition, no-code AI agent tools, and over 25 pre-built Zia agents.

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Scale AI Lays Off 200 Staff, Shifts Focus After Meta Deal Shakeup

The data-labeling startup just laid off 200 employees and dropped 500 global contractors, about a month after Meta hired its CEO in a $14.3 billion deal. According to a memo, interim CEO Jason Droege admitted the company scaled too fast in its original data-labeling business. Now, Scale plans to refocus on enterprise and government sales. The timing’s tough — with major clients pulling back after Meta’s investment, Scale seems to be paying the price of rapid growth. Like other AI firms that peaked too soon, it’s now scrambling for a second act.

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