SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire – May 8, 2025 - Zoho Corporation, a global technology company, has announced the addition of 10 new services and features to Zoho Creator, its low-code application development platform. This move aligns with Zoho's commitment to heavily invest in AI capabilities, providing practical and secure benefits for business users.
The new AI assistant, CoCreator, is designed to facilitate faster, simpler, and smarter application development by utilizing voice commands, text prompts, workflow streams, and business specification documents. CoCreator, powered by Zoho's AI assistant Zia, aims to shorten time-to-market and democratize application development for users of all skill levels without requiring any additional service subscriptions.
Zia has been a pivotal link across Zoho's entire product portfolio, including Creator, since its launch in 2015. As businesses increasingly adopt AI in their daily operations, Zoho leverages its fully owned tech stack and deep AI integration to provide customers with superior AI capabilities tailored to specific use cases across all workflows, allowing them to better understand and predict data usage.
Gibu Mathew, Vice President and General Manager of Zoho Asia-Pacific, stated, "Since the launch of Creator in 2006, the focus has been on simplifying and accelerating the application development process without sacrificing functionality. This enables our users to launch millions of successful applications. AI allows us to take it a step further, reducing the time to turn an idea into an application. Today's announcement raises the bar for the speed of developing high-quality applications with deep capabilities without increasing costs."
The newly introduced features of Zoho Creator are available to all users and include:
- Application Development from Ideas: Utilizing ZohoAI or OpenAI to develop complete applications, including contextual integration, automation, permission systems, and dashboards. By using prompts in text or voice, flowcharts, or software requirement specifications (SRS), Creator provides suggestions and relevant ideas tailored to the customer's business.
- AI-Powered Component Development: Contextual component development enhances existing applications by generating forms based on prompts. Additionally, Zia proactively suggests contextual fields in existing forms, a feature lacking in most similar low-code tools.
- Code Development and Optimization: Developers can use commands in Zia to automatically generate contextual code blocks that align with the application’s requirements and structure. This feature can also optimize and annotate existing code blocks for ideal performance.
- Data Cleaning and Modeling: Quickly transform unstructured data from various file types and databases into customized applications, with advanced AI-based data preparation that eliminates inconsistencies and supports more logical structures down to the detail.
- AI Skills: This feature allows businesses to build applications with specialized skills that can interpret natural language instructions, analyze business context, and coordinate a sequence of actions (supporting Deluge and specialized AI models) to intelligently automate daily processes. Currently, this feature is only available in Early Access, with a broad release expected in June 2025.
Zoho also plans to deploy context-specific custom AI models to meet specific requirements, supporting custom models for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), prediction, and object detection.
Zoho's AI commitment emphasizes designing and integrating AI according to principles of customer privacy and value. The company's general AI models, including contextual AI, assistive AI, and agent AI, are not trained on consumer data and do not retain customer information. Zoho builds AI tools aimed at utility, balancing the provision of AI technology that supports workers with models that do not impose additional cost burdens on consumers.
With over 55 applications across major business categories and more than 18,000 employees globally, Zoho Corporation continues to be one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. The company is privately held and profitable, with its headquarters in Austin, Texas, and its international base in Chennai, India. The Asia-Pacific headquarters is located in Singapore.
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Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an advertising revenue model in any part of its business, including free products. The company owns and operates data centers to ensure comprehensive oversight of customer data, as well as privacy and security. Over 100 million users worldwide trust Zoho applications daily to run their businesses, including Zoho itself.
For additional details on Zoho's privacy commitment, visit Zoho Privacy Commitment.
