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Augment Code Unveils AI-Powered Coding Tool to Challenge GitHub Copilot’s Dominance
Six months after raising a $227 million Series B round of funding, Augment Code is finally revealing its secret: it’s building an alternative to GitHub’s Copilot. It’s billed as a developer AI made for teams capable of understanding codebase and how engineers build software. “Our deep understanding of our customer’s software and how it is […]
Microsoft to Launch AI Agents in Copilot Studio Public Preview Next Month, Firing Back at Salesforce
Microsoft is inching closer to letting businesses create autonomous AI Agents using its Copilot solution. At its AI Tour in London this week, the software company announced plans to bring a new set of capabilities within Copilot Studio into public preview in November 2024. Originally introduced at this year’s Build developer conference, these features are […]
Atlassian’s Rovo, an AI-Driven Search Engine for Enterprises, Is Now Generally Available
Five months ago, Atlassian introduced an AI agent equivalent of an enterprise search engine that sourced information from its family of apps and also third-party providers. Powered by Atlassian Intelligence, Rovo is designed to help workers better discover knowledge, learn from it and take action. Today, it’s generally available to all Atlassian customers. Rovo has […]
Marc Benioff Wants to Break the AI ‘Hypnosis,’ Urges Vendors to ‘Let the Customer at It’
Surrounded by journalists and industry analysts, Salesforce’s outspoken chief executive, Marc Benioff, revealed a secret about this year’s Dreamforce keynote address: It was only completed the prior night after he scrapped an earlier speech three weeks ago. By the time he took the stage, Benioff hadn’t even rehearsed it before addressing 10,000 in-person attendees and […]
Salesforce’s Agentforce: What You Need to Know About the Autonomous AI Agent Platform
Welcome to another special edition of “The AI Economy.” Over the next few days, I’ll devote this newsletter to Salesforce’s annual customer conference. Today’s issue provides a closer look at the company’s autonomous AI agent platform, Agentforce, which will be formally introduced at Dreamforce next week. Calling it “what AI was meant to be,” chief […]
AI Takes Center Stage: The Message Salesforce Must Deliver at Dreamforce
Welcome to a special edition of “The AI Economy.” Over the next few days, I’ll devote this newsletter to Salesforce’s annual customer conference. New issues will feature an analysis of the company’s AI announcements that might reshape how organizations think about how they use the technology. The Prompt Thousands are set to descend on San […]
AI is Reshaping How We Learn to Code—And How to Build ‘The AI Team’ at Work
Welcome back to “The AI Economy.” I took some time away from the newsletter during the summer. During the hiatus, I spent some time and got addicted to photographing velodrome racing at a nearby track to help recharge my creative mind. And now I’m back to share the latest AI news with you! For this week’s […]
AI Platform MindStudio Releases Self-Hosted Offering for the Enterprise
MindStudio, the enterprise-centric AI app development platform, has launched a new product called MindStudio for Enterprise, designed for companies that want more control over their infrastructure. This offering allows developers to take all the features available through the hosted SaaS platform and deploy them directly on the company’s on-premise or private cloud servers. In doing […]
AI Agents: Revolutionizing Software Development and Education
The software development landscape is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. AI agents are proving their worth in helping programmers build software more efficiently — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed recently that the company’s AI assistant, Amazon Q, has drastically reduced the work hours needed for software upgrades. The […]
GitHub: Developers Have Embraced AI, but Companies Are Slow to Catch Up
Software developers in the workplace have embraced artificial intelligence as an integral part of helping them do their jobs. A new study from GitHub reveals that 97 percent of engineers are using AI coding tools at some point. However, the companies they work for have been much slower in adopting AI tools and technologies—40 percent […]