CPTO @Function ❤️|| Previously: SVP Personalization @ Spotify 🎸Product Lead @ Google News 🗞, Founder @ Marginize/Nextly 🚀, Angel Investor 👼 and VC 💰
Boston, MA
Joined January 2009
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My first name is Ziad. In my native Lebanon, when people say “Ziad” without any context, they usually mean Ziad Rahbani. A unique artist who defined an era, and embodies Lebanon in so many ways, especially his creativity, humor, and heart. Sharing one of my favorites here.
RIP Yabou El Ahbab
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Today, Discover Weekly celebrates 10 years and 100B streams!
Over the years, Discover Weekly has become a Monday ritual for millions of listeners around the world—a discovery journey into songs and artists handpicked just for them.
As Spotify’s first personalized playlist, it ushered in a wave of innovations, like Release Radar, Blend, daylist, DJ, and AI Playlist.
Here's to the next decade of personalized discovery, and the next 100B streams!
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Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!
So proud of the team for building another great experience, this year with an extra special gift: a personalized podcast generated by AI just for you that reviews the music and artists that defined your 2024
❤️
Hope you enjoy! newsroom.spotify.com/2024-12…
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Okay native Spanish speakers - asking you to cut me some slack on this one! Been practicing my Duolingo for a while and had to test my skills with our newest Spanish-speaking AI DJ, Livi. Give her a listen on Spotify Premium - I promise her Spanish is way better than mine!! 🤣
Absolute rockstar founding team coming out of stealth mode today, showing impressive results with live customers already!🚀
Case study from OpenAI: openai.com/index/mavenagi-la…
Congrats @jc1 @eugenemann @shalabi - a flagship Boston AI company in the making 🔥
4/ 🚀 Big News! 🚀
I’m thrilled to introduce @MavenAGI. We're emerging from stealth to transform customer service from the ground up, delivering personalized user experiences with unparalleled accuracy and efficiency.
What’s the secret to product development at Spotify?
I had the pleasure of joining @GustavS for the latest episode of "Spotify: A Product Story" where we discussed the team's inside story of building the AI DJ a year ago.
Enjoy!
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One of the most fun and playful features we launched recently, and it was born out of Hack Week!
My Daylist right now: “90s rock flannel evening” 😂
Search for “Daylist” to find yours
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Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!!
My favorite part of #SpotifyWrapped is Your Artist Messages - tens of thousands of artists sent gratitude and love to their truest fans through Spotify for Artists. And artists took it in so many different directions this year.
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New YouTube video: 1hr general-audience introduction to Large Language Models
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Based on a 30min talk I gave recently; It tries to be non-technical intro, covers mental models for LLM inference, training, finetuning, the emerging LLM OS and LLM Security.
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Bringing AI DJ to life was a big team effort. It's so cool to see it selected as one of @TIME’s best inventions of 2023 👏🏻
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Great to see my Duolingo Spanish lessons paying off! 😂 Only kidding – it’s is the magic of the new AI voice translation feature we’re piloting for podcasters on Spotify! This was me recently with @StevenBartlett. spoti.fi/3RW6HVh
Spanish speakers - would love to hear your thoughts.
Absolutely love this new feature we are launching today.
Music brings people together and Jam takes it to the next level! 🎶❤️
Try it and let us know what you think
Introducing Jam – a new way for you and your friends to share the queue and choose what’s playing together. spotify.link/jam
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This is me speaking Spanish, thanks to amazing work by @Spotify AI engineers. The translation & voice-cloning are fully done by AI. Language can create barriers of understanding & thus fuel division. I can't wait for AI to break down this barrier & reveal our common humanity ❤
Great job @eldsjal @GustavS and everyone at @Spotify 🤯👊❤ I'm excited for what the future holds! Check out a full episode of me speaking in Spanish:
open.spotify.com/episode/6S3…
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Podcasters - what if I told you could offer your pod to any listener around the world, in their own local language but still keep it in your own voice? That’s the pilot we’re launching @Spotify!
It’s called Voice Translation and using AI, translates podcasts episodes into alternate languages, all in the podcaster’s voice. It’s pretty insane. Take a look and let me know what you think!
spoti.fi/VoiceTranslation
Today’s launch holds a special significance for me.
I grew up between 3 continents (🇱🇧🇫🇷🇺🇸), observing language barriers firsthand.
You can now hear inspiring ideas in the speaker’s own voice, in your language.
Check the video:
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So proud of the team ❤️
This week, we announced the expansion of Spotify’s personalized “AI DJ” to 50 countries! 🌍
It has been wonderful to see how much the AI DJ has resonated with listeners around the world, and I am so proud of the amazing work the team has done. ❤️
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