Amazon launches Project Amelia for third party sellers, powered by AWS
Amazon is rolling out a series of generative AI tools for third-party sellers built on Amazon Web Services' models and Amazon Bedrock.
HubSpot launches Breeze AI agents, Breeze Intelligence for data enrichment
HubSpot launched Breeze, the company's AI that features copilots and agents, and Breeze Intelligence, which enriches data and identifies the best prospects.
Salesforce Dreamforce 2024: Takeaways on agentic AI, platform, end of copilot era
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff laid out the company’s AI vision, which revolves around autonomous agents working with humans and the end of the “hit or miss” copilot era. The mission for Benioff: Put the copilot era to bed and focus on agentic AI powered by one platform the Salesforce platforms. Benioff said he wanted his customers to use Agentforce to deploy AI agents at Dreamforce.
Salesforce adds AI agents to Marketing, Commerce Clouds, Slack at Dreamforce 2024
Salesforce rolled out Agentforce additions across its Marketing and Commerce Clouds as well as Slack as it harmonizes its platform with AI agents.
Adobe earnings: Solid Q3, but Q4 outlook light
Adobe reported better than expected third quarter earnings as its primary segments delivered double-digit growth from a year ago. However, the fourth quarter outlook was lower than expected.
Salesforce's acquisition of Own highlights small ball approach to M&A
Salesforce's purchase of Own Company for $1.9 billion highlights how the company has to play small ball with mergers and acquisitions given the scrutiny it gets with big deals. But keep in mind that small acquisitions such as Airkit.ai, which powered Salesforce’s Agentforce strategy, can have bigger impact.
Big software deals closing on AWS Marketplace, rival efforts
Enterprise software giants have spent heavily on sales teams, channel strategies and cross-selling playbooks, but it increasingly looks like sales are going to run through AWS Marketplace and similar efforts from other cloud giants.
Salesforce's Benioff ponders consumption-based model enabled by Agentforce
With Agentforce, Salesforce is betting that it can charge by conversation and find the path back to growth.