Spotify says it built an AI agent to bridge third-party assistants
Co-CEO Gustav Söderström told the earnings call Spotify will keep its proprietary user data away from outside AI agents.
Spotify has built its own AI agent that can communicate with third-party assistants, allowing users to request music, podcasts and audiobooks through those services while Spotify handles recommendations and playback, co-CEO Gustav Söderström said on the company's earnings call on October 22, according to Gizmodo.
Söderström said Spotify is unusually well positioned for the age of agentic AI, and that compatible AI agents can already save AI-generated podcast episodes privately to users' libraries. The company said it wants to expand that integration further.
He also said Spotify would not share its proprietary user data with third-party AI agents. Even so, he described agent requests as a positive data loop for Spotify, because they give the company information about users' interests it would not otherwise have.
Earlier partnerships
In February, on the fourth-quarter call, Söderström said Spotify was building the world's first truly intelligent agentic media platform. Last month the company announced a partnership with Meta's AI agent Muse, and it has signed deals to integrate its services into OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. Amazon said separately that it blocked Meta's Muse agents from shopping on its platform.
Quick answers
What did Spotify say about third-party AI agents?
Spotify said it built its own AI agent that talks to third-party assistants so users can request music, podcasts and audiobooks while Spotify handles recommendations and playback.
Will Spotify share user data with outside AI agents?
No. Co-CEO Gustav Söderström said Spotify would not share its proprietary user data with third-party AI agents.
Which AI assistants does Spotify work with?
Spotify announced a partnership with Meta's agent Muse last month and has signed deals with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude.