Ziad Sultan

CPTO @Function ❤️|| Previously: SVP Personalization @ Spotify 🎸Product Lead @ Google News 🗞, Founder @ Marginize/Nextly 🚀, Angel Investor 👼 and VC 💰

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

Ecuador!!! 🇪🇨💪🔥

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

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

https://t.co/LbA2Ismbvu

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

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!

https://t.co/Pqd0CVZC3z

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

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! https://t.co/x9vBBBBoQZ

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

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!! 🤣

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

Absolute rockstar founding team coming out of stealth mode today, showing impressive results with live customers already!🚀

Case study from OpenAI: https://t.co/cWb8WqpJ1K

Congrats @jc1 @eugenemann @shalabi - a flagship Boston AI company in the making 🔥

[Jonathan Corbin @jc1]

@HubSpot 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.

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

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!

https://t.co/aGysH57ekq

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

@scottbelsky I started a company called “Marginize” to do exactly this back in 2010!
https://t.co/E87j3Q8j2H

I agree with you, and still keep hoping one day someone will succeed in making this happen…

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

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

https://t.co/bN5pQtDxy6

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!!

[Charlie Hellman @Hellmania]

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.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

New YouTube video: 1hr general-audience introduction to Large Language Models
https://t.co/Bl4WNuNyFJ

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.

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

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 👏🏻

https://t.co/ExhZ1NMie0

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

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. https://t.co/DgEPgifx2r

Spanish speakers - would love to hear your thoughts.

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

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

[Spotify @Spotify]

Introducing Jam – a new way for you and your friends to share the queue and choose what’s playing together. https://t.co/eAK0wcl8zB

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

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:
https://t.co/aVq5eTOTUg

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

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!

https://t.co/wwUYsd3Mgo

[Ziad Sultan @ZSultan]

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:
https://t.co/9J0aqPQh2N

So proud of the team ❤️