Zoom 2.0 relaunches as an AI-first company without video in its name

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Zoom is changing its sanction from Zoom Video Communications Inc. to conscionable Zoom Communications Inc. In a station connected the institution blog, Zoom Communications CEO Eric Yuan writes that Zoom is present an “AI-first enactment level for quality connection” that delivers “modern, hybrid enactment solutions.” It’s a muddy, if vague, alteration compared to its 2020 emergence erstwhile the classical Zoom Meetings merchandise became synonymous with video conferencing and thrived arsenic companies were forced to modulation employees to enactment from home.

Now, it nary longer wants to beryllium known for video arsenic workers person returned to offices, and bigger, better-resourced contention from Google, Microsoft, and Slack offers video arsenic a diagnostic of the bureau suites companies already wage for.

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