As CTO of Zoom, I'm excited to share a significant milestone in our AI journey. Today, we're announcing that Zoom has achieved a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) result on the challenging Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) full-set benchmark, scoring 48.1%, which represents a substantial 2.3% improvement over the previous SOTA result of 45.8% by Google Gemini3-pro with tool integration.
Topping AI benchmarks are usually thought to be the preserve of the top four AI frontier labs, but a surprising new name has emerged on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark. Zoom, the video conferencing platform, has announced it achieved a state-of-the-art score of 48.1% on the Humanity’s Last ...
Zoom says its “federated AI” model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools
Zoom’sSLM outperforms models from Alibaba Group, DeepSeek AI, Google, and Microsoft in the 2B-category. By leveraging domain‑specific data, customized SLMs can match industry leaders...
These developments are being positioned to support ZoomAI Companion, the company's suite of AI features. Zoom indicates that SLMs customized through its forthcoming AI Studio will enable more efficient AI agents that can achieve results comparable to more resource-intensive LLMs at lower cost.
While on average tech companies are leveraging a large language model (LLM) to respond to complex promotions, Zoom relies on small language model-powered Artificial Intelligence (AI) (SLM) agents to develop AI Companion technology. Unlike LLM, SLM uses training data and more focused parameters.
