ZoomInfo selected Anthropic over OpenAI and Google for call summarization
Ali Dasdan · AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo · Sep 19, 2024 · at 27:45
Ali Dasdan, CTO of ZoomInfo, outlines the company's multi-model LLM strategy and identifies Anthropic as the provider for Chorus's summarization feature.
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“We are using Anthropic, we are using OpenAI, we are using Google, but for that one, we released Anthropic.”
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