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title: "Watch WebRTC Live # 80: What’s Next for Jitsi and JaaS? – WebRTC.ventures"
description: For our 80th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin sat down with Saúl Ibarra Corretgé, Principal Software Engineer at 8×8, open source and RTC pundit, and self-appointed Chief Jitsi Evangelist, for a discussion the present and future of Jitsi as it straddles the open source/CPaaS duality.
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# [Watch WebRTC Live # 80: What’s Next for Jitsi and JaaS? – WebRTC.ventures](https://blog.webrtc.ventures/2023/06/watch-webrtc-live-80-whats-next-for-jitsi-and-jaas)

 Written by [Jen Oppenheimer](https://blog.webrtc.ventures/author/jen-oppenheimer) | Jun 21, 2023 4:00:00 AM

On June 21, 2023, [Arin Sime](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arinsime/) welcomed [Saúl Ibarra Corretgé](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saghul/), Principal Software Engineer at [8×8](https://www.8x8.com/), open source and RTC pundit, and self-appointed Chief [Jitsi](https://jitsi.org/) Evangelist to the show. Saúl joined live from [CommCon 2023](https://2023.commcon.xyz/)!

2023 marks two milestones for the comprehensive open source meeting platform we now know as Jitsi. It was born twenty years ago when French University student Emil Ivov created SIP Communicator. It became WebRTC-compatible ten years ago. Another step in its evolution was three years ago, when 8×8 launched Jitsi as a Service (JaaS) into the growing CPaaS market. What’s next for Jitsi and JaaS?

After a quick introduction to [Jitsi](http://jitsi.org) and[Jitsi and a Service](https://jaas.8x8.vc/) (JaaS), Saúl shared:

## What’s new and what’s coming in Jitsi

- Quality and screen-sharing improvements
- AV1 support
- Support for 10K participants
- React Native SDK almost ready

## What’s new and what’s coming in JaaS

- More APIs!
- Components: PSTN dial-in
- Hybrid cloud model 
    - Your frontend, JaaS backend
    - E2EE on by default
    - JaaS has no access to any keys

## AI: Welcoming the robots to Jitsi

- Ability to AI-enhance meetings 
    - Core features like meeting summarization and action items
    - Bots framework to provide extra features as AI participants

## [Watch Episode 80!](https://youtube.com/live/XmH08alFJu8)

## Up Next! WebRTC Live Episode 81

Wednesday, July 12 at 10:00 am Eastern  
with guest [Paula Osés Noguero](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-os%C3%A9s-noguero-382937152/), AI engineer at [Noumena](https://noumena.io/en/)  
[**Register**](https://webrtc.ventures/webrtc-live-registration/).

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