- Published on July 21, 2025
- In AI Features
Zoho Says It Doesn’t Have the Muscle to Compete With ChatGPT
The company believes AI should serve business needs, not chase internet hype.
- By Ankush Das
Zoho recently rolled out a range of AI releases, including a proprietary LLM stack and speech recognition models, without ever invoking the usual ChatGPT comparisons. There were no open betas, no claims of general-purpose intelligence, and certainly no talk of disrupting humanity.
Instead, Zoho reiterated what it has quietly believed for years: AI, like software, should serve business needs, not chase internet hype.
While competitors chase benchmark bragging rights and flashy multimodal showcases, Zoho is staying firmly within its lane.
“We don’t have the muscle to compete with the likes of ChatGPT or Gemini, to be honest,” Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, director of AI research at Zoho, told AIM. “That’s the truth.”
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Ankush Das
I am a tech aficionado and a computer science graduate with a keen interest in AI, Coding, Open Source, Global SaaS, and Cloud. Have a tip? Reach out to ankush.das@aimmediahouse.com
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