Salesforce India Reports 47% Revenue Growth, Ramps Up Push Toward Agentic Enterprise Model

Emversity, an Indian startup focused on job-ready training, has successfully raised $30 million in a new funding round, doubling its valuation as it aims to scale its operations in a market increasingly focused on skills that artificial intelligence cannot replace.

Salesforce has enhanced Slack's AI capabilities by integrating an upgraded Slackbot powered by Anthropic's Claude model, as announced by Rob Seaman, Slack's chief product officer and interim CEO, during an appearance on Bloomberg Tech.

Researchers at the University of Surrey have developed the world's first dataset designed to enhance English-to-Malayalam machine translation, addressing a significant gap for this low-resource language spoken by over 38 million people in India.

Salesforce has officially launched its enhanced AI Assistant Slackbot for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, which functions as an AI agent that learns from workplace conversations to improve productivity.

A new dataset named IndRegBias has been introduced to study regional biases in English and code-mixed comments on social media platforms like Reddit and YouTube, focusing on Indian contexts. This dataset comprises 25,000 comments that reflect regional biases, which have been less explored compared to other social biases such as gender and race.

A new study presents an Edge-AI perception node designed for real-time traffic violation analytics and safety event dissemination in India, addressing the challenges posed by rapid motorization and a significant enforcement gap, with over 11 million violations recorded in 2023.

Salesforce has announced a significant update to its Slackbot, transforming it into a personal AI agent designed to enhance workplace productivity by integrating AI technology into existing tools rather than adding complexity for employees. This initiative reflects a strategic shift towards making AI more accessible and useful in daily tasks.

Salesforce has launched a completely redesigned version of its Slackbot, transforming it into a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and executing tasks for employees. This new version is available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, marking a significant shift in how workplace AI can assist users.