Paramount’s AI – Paramount streaming executives say AI is turning two-to-four-hour tasks into minutes and shrinking multi-day coding work. The shift is driven by CEO David Ellison’s tech-forward plan ahead of Paramount’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, even as t
On a Wednesday tech meeting, Paramount’s streaming leaders didn’t talk about AI in vague terms. They showed it—how a tool could take a job that used to take hours and finish it in under 10 minutes, and how AI coding help could compress days of work into minutes.
Executives at Paramount Skydance pitched what they called “productivity acceleration” during the quarterly tech meeting. according to a screenshot of the presentation viewed by Business Insider. The slide deck described an AI-powered triage tool for data processing that completed a two- to four-hour task in less than 10 minutes. It also pointed to tech staffers using the AI coding tool Claude Code. with a task that previously took days reportedly completed in minutes.
The push sits inside CEO David Ellison’s plan to remake the 114-year-old media company into a “tech-forward” enterprise, ahead of its plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.
Several high-level Paramount employees told Business Insider that early results have been encouraging. and that AI is becoming part of daily work rather than a special project. “Coding is not the bottleneck. It no longer takes days to write the code — it takes hours,” said one veteran streaming leader.
Not everyone is waiting for permission to experiment. Paramount has encouraged tech employees to freely use AI, two employees said. But in the same Wednesday meeting. the company told tech employees it is beginning to implement “per-user monthly spend limits” on AI tokens. Alan Ho. Paramount’s senior director of identity architecture and AI enablement. said in a Slack message viewed by Business Insider that the limit would be “a high limit based on usage analytics.”.
The message carried an unmistakable push for adoption—so much so that one employee framed non-use as a kind of lost drive. If Paramount employees don’t use AI. a sense of “something’s missing in your drive” is how one veteran streaming leader described the feeling internally. echoing the tone of executives urging teams to try the tools.
Paramount is also moving on other technology fronts that affect how quickly AI can be put to work. The company plans to place streamers on a unified tech platform this summer. has expanded the role of data and insights. and has made key hires. including Barak Turovsky—former Google executives—named consumer AI head. and Hugh Williams—named an EVP.
In recent months. Paramount has created an AI dashboard that shows Cursor token usage. similar to dashboards at Disney and the finance giant JPMorgan. One top AI user on Paramount’s dashboard said the shift toward AI “almost felt like it happened overnight” and said staffers “feel more empowered every day” to use those tools.
“It’s just part of how we work,” that person said of AI. “It’s taken a lot of the heavy lifting out of the technical side, which has freed up more time and headspace for the creative work.”
Another Paramount tech executive said they weren’t diving deep into AI until the spring. but are now “aboard the hype train.” They said AI tools can handle weeks’ worth of work in minutes. “At some point, if you’re not using it, something’s wrong,” the executive said. “Something’s missing in your drive.”.
The most aggressive workflow descriptions came from an employee who said they’ve been using teams of AI agents, deploying as many as 10 automated bots at once to accomplish tasks.
The veteran streaming leader said their AI usage correlated with productivity and that the amount of code produced was soaring. “I was giving praise to developers who appeared in the top 10,” the veteran streaming leader said.
Those results. the veteran streaming leader added. have mattered for a deadline Paramount has been treating as a priority: converging its streaming tech platforms by the middle of the year. Without rapid maturity and adoption of AI. the leader said they didn’t think their team would have accomplished its goals on time.
In other words, Paramount’s AI story isn’t only about faster outputs. It’s also about a company trying to compress timelines—technology adoption. platform convergence. and the broader transformation plan that CEO David Ellison is positioning as the path forward ahead of the planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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