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Zoho Corporation has launched Zia LLM, its proprietary large language model tailored for enterprise use, marking a major milestone in India’s AI innovation landscape. Introduced at the Zoholics 2025 event, Zia LLM is designed to deliver contextual intelligence across Zoho’s suite of 55+ business applications
Model Architecture:
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Zia LLM comes in three sizes: 1.3 billion, 2.6 billion, and 7 billion parameters
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Built entirely inhouse using Nvidia GPUs, optimized for businessspecific tasks like CRM, HR, finance, and customer support
Privacy and Efficiency:
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Trained exclusively on publicly available and proprietary annotated data—no customer data used
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Hosted on Zoho’s own data centers in India, the US, and Europe, ensuring full data sovereignty
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Rightsized models reduce inference costs and improve energy efficiency
Performance and Expansion:
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Benchmarked against Meta’s Llama models, Zia LLM outperformed Llama 2 and matched 80% of Llama 3’s performance
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Plans to scale up to 32, 70, and 100 billion parameters by end2025
Ecosystem Integration:
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Zia LLM is already embedded in Zoho CRM and other apps for summarization, smart prompts, and sales insights
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Launch includes Zia Agent Studio with 700+ builtin actions and 25+ prebuilt AI agents for Indian use cases like PAN and Aadhaar verification
Speech Recognition:
Zoho also introduced ASR models for English and Hindi, with support for 15 Indian languages coming soon
Sources: The Hindu BusinessLine, Financial Express, Moneycontrol, Indian Express, BusinessWorld, Outlook Business
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