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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 […]
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 […]
Stripe Releases SDK Enabling Payment and Billing Capabilities for AI Agents
Stripe has introduced a new software development kit (SDK) to integrate its financial technology seamlessly into AI-driven workflows. With the Stripe agent toolkit, bots will be able to engage in monetary transactions, helping to earn and spend funds, provide troubleshooting, and provide bills for usage with metered billing. The new SDK supports AI agents built […]
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 […]
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 […]