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 open.spotify.com/track/3rPOz…

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! newsroom.spotify.com/2025-06…

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…

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 🔥

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! open.spotify.com/episode/0ah…

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 nytimes.com/2024/01/24/style…

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!!

New YouTube video: 1hr general-audience introduction to Large Language Models youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhN… 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.

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 👏🏻 time.com/collection/best-inv…

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

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…

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

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. ❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=L0t5Yidp…

While most people now start to understand what AI can do I find that most people (often even in tech) still don't have any real understanding of how it actually does these things. This means that they tend to either overestimate - or underestimate - what it can really do when they build products, regulate etc. I think it's generally important to understand technology to be able to apply it. So - trying to channel my inner educational/AI hero @karpathy - I did an internal Spotify talk for our executives and employees, where I try to build these intuitions without requiring any math or engineering background. I was then asked to share it more broadly. Hopefully you find it useful. Let me know! The talk covers: - How does ChatGPT work and what is a Large Language model? - How can a computer understand language? - How can a Large Language Model be "creative"? - How do you steer it and give it "values"? - How does Stable Diffusion and Midjourney work and what is a Diffusion Model? - What does "Intelligence is compression" mean? - How can you generate images, video and music etc from just a piece of text, or even pure white noise? Watch the full talk on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=2eWuYf-a… on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2fC…