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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 […]
IT Leaders Bet on AI Agents to Ease Growing Workloads, But Integration Remains a Major Hurdle
Companies are embracing the artificial intelligence revolution, turning to AI agents to help them scale for the future. That’s good news for enterprise agentic platform providers like Salesforce, Zendesk, and ServiceNow and startups like Cognition Labs, Adept AI, and LangChain. However, while there’s tech adoption, it’s not being smartly executed. New research from MuleSoft, Venson […]
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 […]
Ai2’s ScholarQA Launches to Help Researchers Answer Complex Questions Across Multiple Papers
Artificial intelligence company Ai2 has released a tool to streamline the literature review process for researchers. With Ai2 ScholarQA, users can use AI to parse multiple documents simultaneously to garner a response to scientific questions. Before this automation, researchers would have had to spend countless hours comparing and summarizing numerous papers independently. Now, there’s a […]
Luma Labs Releases Ray2, Its Large-Scale Video Generative Model to Paid Subscribers
Luma Labs, the creator of the popular Dream Machine generative AI platform, has launched Ray2, its new model the company boasts can produce videos using text and images in under ten seconds. The release comes weeks after it was first introduced by Chief Executive Amit Jain at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. Although Ray2 is […]
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 […]
Google’s NotebookLM Adds a Premium Tier, Adaptable UI, and Interactive Audio Overviews
Google is taking its popular NotebookLM app to the next level. No longer just an experiment, the company is unveiling a series of updates on Friday that position the notebook tool as a fully mature product. The first is a premium tier called NotebookLM Plus, designed with enterprise users in mind, followed by a revamped […]
Ai2 Unveils OLMo 2, Calling It The Most Advanced Fully Open Language Model Yet
In February, Ai2 released OLMo, its “truly open-source” large language model, as a suitable alternative to closed and restrictive models. Nine months later, the nonprofit research institute introduced its successor, OLMo 2, describing it as the “best fully open language model to date” comparable to Meta’s Llama 3.1. This family features two variations: a 7B […]
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. […]