- Hi, I'm Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox

and I'm excited to share some new AI powered

product experiences that we're launching today

to help improve your working life.

When I first founded Dropbox,

it was all about making it easy for you to store,

share and access your files anytime from anywhere.

And while the world has changed a lot since then,

you don't see a lot of people carrying around

a thumb drive anymore.

We still see a lot of room for improvement

in the way we use technology at work today.

That's why our mission is to design a more enlightened way

of working and we're focused on making

the Dropbox experience even better

so you can do your best work.

And we've believed for a long time

that AI and machine learning have a huge role to play

in transforming how we work.

Over the years,

we've incorporated machine learning across our products,

from automatically reshaping your scanned documents,

to transcribing your videos, or removing all those ums

and likes from your Dropbox capture recordings,

all to help you save time and work more efficiently.

But in just the last few months,

recent advancements in AI and generative AI

have been taking the world by storm

and have opened up a whole new world of possibilities.

We're now living in a world where computers can see

and hear and read and write and make art

and talk to us for the first time.

We can all remember the first time

we asked ChatGPT a question.

It actually knew what we were talking about

and it gave us a super useful answer.

And then the next thing you know, you look up,

it's midnight and ChatGPT is writing poems about your dog.

We're just scratching the surface of all the ways

that generative AI can make our lives easier at work.

But if you think about it,

there are a lot of questions that ChatGPT can't answer.

For example, what if you wanted to ask,

"What's my passport number?"

or "when does my auto insurance expire?"

Or "where's that presentation we did

for last year's product launch?"

Chat bots and Google searches can't answer these questions

for you because they don't know about you,

your company or your stuff.

We need AI that's personalized to us

and that's where Dropbox comes in.

I'm excited to tell you about all the new ways

we're applying AI to Dropbox

so you can get more out of your content.

First, is Dropbox AI.

Dropbox AI is a new feature that lets you instantly

summarize and ask questions

about your Dropbox files, especially big files.

How many times have you wanted to get a quick understanding

of what a presentation is about or had a simple question

about a contract, but your only option

was having to sift through a hundred pages of content

to find the answer?

Well, now, you don't have to.

With Dropbox AI, now you can pull up a file,

you can ask it anything, and Dropbox will read the document

for you and give you an answer.

And in a single click, you can easily get a summary

of the entire a hundred page doc,

saving you all the time and extra effort

that it would otherwise have taken to do that manually.

We're starting with individual files,

but this is just the first step.

Over time, you'll be able to ask a question

about your Dropbox folders and even your entire Dropbox.

So we're really excited for all of you

to give Dropbox AI a shot.

At the same time, as we all know,

work isn't just about files and folders today.

What used to be a hundred files on your desktop

are now a hundred tabs in your browser,

for all our Google Docs, our Airtables, Notion docs,

and all the other cloud tools we use today.

And in the new world of remote and hybrid work,

where we're basically working more from our screens

than our offices,

we're putting a lot more stress on the system.

All the new tools we're using have given us new superpowers

enabling us to be productive from anywhere.

But when you look under underneath your Zoom window,

maybe we've gotten a little too much of a good thing

because the screens we work in all day

are a fragmented mess.

In a lot of ways,

it feels like we're back to the same kinds of problems

that led me to start Dropbox in the first place.

My stuff's everywhere.

I can't find it.

Instead of technology making my life easier,

every year, the problem seems to be getting worse.

It's amazing to me that we live in a world

where it's easier to search all of human knowledge

with a Google search

than it is to search your company's knowledge

or even just your own stuff.

We've all been there.

You know there's that doc or presentation somewhere.

You were just looking at it yesterday

but now you can't find it.

At some point, you just give up

and you ping someone else to see if they know where it is,

interrupting their day

and sending them down the same rabbit hole.

Is that really the best use of our time and our brain power?

We can do a lot better.

We all need a search box for our private information,

just like Google gave us a search box for public information

and it needs to just work,

not only with your Dropbox files, but with everything.

That's why today we're introducing Dropbox Dash.

Dash is an AI powered universal search engine

that connects all of your tools, apps, and content

in a single search bar that lets you easily find

whatever you're looking for.

No matter what app it's in,

who sent it to you, what you named it, how long it's been

since you last looked at it, you can find it super fast.

Dash connects across your favorite tools,

like Google Workspace, HubSpot, Asana, and Notion

so that you can access all of your content

no matter where it lives or what format it's in.

And because Dash is powered by machine learning,

it learns and evolves with you

and it gets better the more you use it.

And Dash is much more than a search bar.

It also includes two additional features,

Stacks and a Start Page for work.

One of the most important things people do

on Dropbox is share.

Dropbox customers have created billions of shared folders

but shared folders have a big limitation.

They can only hold your files

and no one's created a modern solution

for organizing everything else.

This is kind of crazy 'cause if you think about it,

files have folders, songs have playlists,

but links don't really have a container.

Most of the time, you can only really share

one link at a time.

That's where Dropbox Stacks come in.

Stacks are smart collections that give you

the missing organizational layer

for your links and your cloud content.

With Stacks, you can organize your links

into smart collections, however you want.

And why do we even have to manually file things

away to begin with?

The good news is you don't have to anymore.

Stacks uses machine intelligence

to surface smart suggestions

and organize your content for you.

Next is the Start Page.

And we all know that feeling.

Your laptop just updated overnight.

And when you go to open your browser,

you realize that all your tabs are gone.

With the Start Page,

you can feel safe closing your tabs

or even your whole browser

because the Start Page gives you a single dashboard

where you can search across all your content,

view all your Stacks and see all your meetings.

And the more you use the Start Page,

the more it can predict what you need

for a more productive workday.

The Start Page remembers all the most important things

you're working on

and helps you pick back up where you left off.

And because it's one place to start and end your workday,

you can say goodbye to all those distracting tabs.

So you've seen what Dash can do today,

but this is just the beginning.

Imagine having a virtual assistant that knows everything

about your company, knows all your stuff.

It's kinda like having a giant silicon brain

that has read everything your company's ever written.

This is what we've created with Dash Answers.

So instead of doing a search and getting a bunch of links,

opening a bunch of new tabs, Dash Answers can do all that

for you and just give you the answer.

Answers are just one of the many new features we're building

for Dropbox Dash, and we can't wait to share more with you.

So there you have it.

You've seen Dropbox AI and Dropbox Dash.

One thing that becomes clear

in using intelligent tools is the need for personalization,

having an AI that knows about you, knows about your content,

knows about your company,

that you can interact with using natural language.

Another thing that's clear is that in the brave new world

of AI, trust, privacy and security are even more critical.

We all need a service that we can trust

that will use AI responsibly.

And Dropbox is a place that millions of customers

and millions of businesses

trust with their most important information.

You have our promise that we'll be transparent,

preserve your privacy, and you'll continue to be

in control of your content.

Dropbox is also platform agnostic,

so you're free to bring any tool

or piece of content you want into your Dropbox

and it'll be a great experience.

We'll help you organize your entire working life

and deliver magical AI powered experiences

to help you quickly discover, access and manage everything

right from Dropbox.

We're starting to roll out Dropbox AI today.

We hope you'll give it a try.

And Dropbox Dash is in beta.

You can join the wait list now

and we'll be rolling it out more broadly soon.

So let us know what you think.

And thanks for watching.

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