{"id":1038218,"date":"2026-09-24T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038218"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:32:01","slug":"ai-slowdown-unlikely-as-llms-have-become-a-commodity-sridhar-vembu-co-founder-chief-scientist-zoho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/ai-slowdown-unlikely-as-llms-have-become-a-commodity-sridhar-vembu-co-founder-chief-scientist-zoho\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI slowdown unlikely as LLMs have become a commodity\u2019: Sridhar Vembu, Co-founder &amp; Chief Scientist, Zoho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho on Wednesday marked its entry into vertical SaaS solutions focused on seven industry-specific applications at its annual event Zoholics in Chennai. Chief Scientist and Co-founder Sridhar Vembu tells Narayanan V about the rationale, the role of AI in boosting productivity and the changing economics of the technology industry. Edited Excerpts: <\/p>\n<p>What prompted your entry into vertical SaaS? <\/p>\n<p>If you look at our horizontal suite, we already have a very strong foundation. When you go into a particular segment like real estate, healthcare or education, they need very industry-specific solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho on Wednesday marked its entry into vertical SaaS solutions focused on seven industry-specific applications at its annual event Zoholics in Chennai. Chief Scientist and Co-founder Sridhar Vembu tells Narayanan V about the rationale, the role of AI in boosting productivity and the changing economics of the technology industry. Edited Excerpts: What prompted your entry into vertical SaaS? If you look at our horizontal suite, we already have a very strong foundation. When you go into a particular segment like real estate, healthcare or education, they need very industry-specific solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038266,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038218\/revisions\/1038266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}