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Salesforce Expands Agentforce to Bring ‘Proactive’ AI Agents to Any App or Workflow
Salesforce is updating its agentic development platform, infusing AI agents with new autonomous capabilities. With the release of Agentforce 2dx, created bots are moving away from the confines of a chat interface and can now be embeddable in any application, workflow, or process. The newest Agentforce update, revealed at Salesforce’s TDX conference, includes new features designed […]
Salesforce Unveils AgentExchange, a Built-In Marketplace for Agentforce
Twenty years ago, Salesforce introduced AppExchange, a cloud-based marketplace for business applications. It was designed to strengthen the platform and provide CRM administrators and developers with a space to showcase their apps. Since then, it has become a key part of Salesforce’s ecosystem. Today, there have been more than 13 million installs, and it now […]
Salesforce’s Next Big Challenge: Convincing Developers to Build AI Agents
Marc Benioff believes we’re in the era of digital labor, an opportunity Salesforce’s charismatic chief executive concedes his company is still trying to grasp. “We can see a new world opening when we look at digital labor. When we’re talking about [AI] agents, we’re talking about digital labor,” he proclaimed in December, valuing it as […]
Ai2’s Tulu 3 405B Pushes Open-Weight AI Forward, Challenging DeepSeek, OpenAI Models
The nonprofit formerly known as the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has released a much more considerable variation of its Tulu 3 model. In addition to the 8 billion and 70 billion parameter versions introduced in November 2024, there’s now a 405 billion option. Ai2 calls this iteration the “first application of fully open post-training […]
Salesforce Unveils Agentforce 2.0, Bringing AI Agents to Slack and Introducing Advanced Atlas Reasoning
As AI agents take center stage in 2024, Salesforce is fully leaning into the trend. In October, the cloud computing company launched Agentforce, a platform that lets anyone quickly build advanced AI bots and connect them to enterprise data. Two months later, it’s introducing its next-generation AI agent offering, which aims to redefine “AI agents across […]
AWS Adds New Models, Caching, and Data Integration to Amazon Bedrock
If you thought Amazon Web Services (AWS) was done revealing updates to Amazon Bedrock, you’re in for a surprise. After all, it’s the centerpiece of the company’s push to bring inference to all applications. That said, the generative AI development platform is receiving another slate of features and capabilities now generally available or in preview. […]
AWS Launches an Amazon Bedrock Marketplace With More Than 100 Models
Amazon Web Services announced the creation of a marketplace within Amazon Bedrock from which developers can easily find and install popular, emerging, and specialized language models. Although the company’s fully managed service for building and scaling generative AI applications already supports multiple models, this marketplace enables developers to swap out the LLM without requiring direct […]
AWS Expands Amazon Bedrock with Automated Reasoning, Multi-Agent Collaboration, and Model Distillation
Amazon Bedrock, the fully managed service for building and scaling generative AI applications, is receiving new features to help developers move more quickly from proof of concept to go-to-market. The company announced at its 2024 re:Invent conference that the platform is gaining enhanced safeguards, the ability to orchestrate multiple agents, and the ability to create […]
Hugging Face Introduces SmolVLM, a 2B Model for Multimodal AI on Edge Devices
AI startup Hugging Face has released an open-source family of compact visual language models named SmolVLM. With two billion parameters, it’s built for on-device inference, which the company claims outperforms similar models with comparable GPU RAM usage and token throughputs. Three models are available at launch: SmolVLM-Base, which offers downstream fine-tuning; SmolVLM-Synthetic, a fine-tuned variant […]
Luma AI Releases Its Photon Text-to-Image Model, Unveils Dream Machine Subscription Plan
Luma AI, the startup known for Dream Machine, is introducing Photon, a new text-to-image foundation model designed for professionals, creative artists, small businesses, and educators. Boasting speeds and costs 800 percent better than comparable models, Photon aims to bring the success it found with video generation to other visual areas. Alongside the launch, Luma AI […]