15 AI News That Should Not Be Ignored

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6. Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM)

Market Capitalization: $326.7 billion

Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) is a cloud-based software company. Salesforce’s AI strategy this year has shifted to developing autonomous agents, exemplified by the launch of Agentforce, a platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and deploy autonomous AI agents for various business functions.

On November 8, Bloomberg reported that Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) plans on hiring more than 1,000 workers in order to sell its new generative AI agent product called Agentforce. According to the company, this new artificial intelligence product has already gained “amazing momentum”, resulting in a hiring surge. Agentforce was launched last month, with an initial pricing of about $2 per agent conversation.

“Agentforce became available just two weeks ago and we’re already hearing incredible feedback from our customers”.

– Chief Executive Marc Benioff, Salesforce

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