Zoho debuts in-house LLM and AI agents; aims to optimise efficiency and reduce costs

Zoho Corp on Thursday launched a proprietary large language model (LLM) and a suite of artificial intelligence agents, as the software company seeks to deepen its AI capabilities.

This initiative is a core part of the company’s long-term vision to reduce software costs, optimise power consumption, and provide more specialised, business-centric AI solutions, chief executive Mani Vembu told ET.

The company has in the past supported a variety of third-party and open-source LLMs. With the new LLM, named Zia, Zoho is using its own models to power specific…