Zoho will release its newly built large language model, Zia LLM, to customers in Kenya, Nigeria, and other African markets by the end of 2025, integrating it across its enterprise applications at no additional cost.
Premanand Velumani, Associate Director, Strategic Growth, Zoho MEA, says Customers will not pay any extra cost for Zia LLM. Zia has also been developed fully internally without a third-party model.
Premanand Velumani, says Zia is currently being tested internally across Zoho’s application portfolio. While Zoho supports other LLMs, including ChatGPT, Llama, and DeepSeek, Zia LLM processes data entirely on Zoho’s servers, avoiding the transfer of sensitive information to third-party AI cloud providers.