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Google Pushes Agent Interoperability With New Dev Kit and Agent2Agent Standard
Google is doubling down on enterprise AI. At Cloud Next 2025, the company unveiled new cloud capabilities designed to help businesses turn AI potential into real-world impact. That includes the arrival of Gemini 2.5 Flash on the Vertex AI developer platform and upgrades to its generative media models. And, as AI agents begin taking on […]
Augment Unveils New AI Agent Built for Large Codebases and Context-Rich Development
Augment has developed a new AI agent designed to address one of software development’s toughest challenges: working with large, complex codebases. This vibecoding-supportive chatbot supports memory and model context protocol (MCP) and can handle up to 200,000 context tokens. “Until now, no AI coding platform has specifically targeted the challenges software engineering teams face working […]
Salesforce Bets Big on Agentblazers: Training One Million Builders for the AI Era
As Salesforce further promotes its vision of an agentic workforce, it must equip the next generation of builders with the necessary knowledge to unleash these AI bots. To accomplish this, the enterprise tech firm has turned to a familiar playbook while also banking heavily on its Trailhead education platform. It has set an ambitious goal: […]
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 […]
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 […]