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Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

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Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI <p><a href="https://www.salesforce.com/">Salesforce</a> on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of <a href="https://slack.com/help/articles/202026038-An-introduction-to-Slackbot">Slackbot</a>, the company's workplace a…
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  • We're saturating what we can do with purely conversational UIs, and agents will start building interfaces that best suit user intent

    80% confidence
  • LLMs are commodities that are democratized, like CPUs

    80% confidence
  • LLMs applied to unstructured information are incredible, and Slack conversations contain tremendous value that humans can't extract but LLMs can

    80% confidence
  • 73% of internal Slackbot adoption was driven by social sharing rather than top-down mandates

    80% confidence
  • Slackbot isn't just another copilot or AI assistant. It's the front door to the agentic enterprise, powered by Salesforce.

    80% confidence
  • Security team signed off on Slackbot rather quickly because it only accesses information each user already has permission to view

    80% confidence
  • Anthropic was the only provider that could give us a compliant LLM when Slack began building the new system due to FedRAMP Moderate certification requirements

    80% confidence
  • Can't imagine working for another company without access to these types of AI tools; this is just how I work now

    80% confidence
  • Slackbot is an absolute 'chaos tamer' for the team, saving about 30 minutes daily by eliminating context switching

    80% confidence
  • Internal satisfaction rates for new Slackbot reached 96%, the highest for any AI feature Slack has shipped

    80% confidence
  • Slackbot is included at no additional cost for customers on Business+ and Enterprise+ plans

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce does not train any models on customer data because models don't have security controls to prevent unauthorized access

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce employees report saving between two and 20 hours per week using new Slackbot

    80% confidence
  • Two-thirds of Salesforce employees have tried the new Slackbot, with 80% of those users continuing to use it regularly

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce's API pricing changes could force enterprises to use Salesforce Data Cloud instead of Fivetran to replicate data to Snowflake

    80% confidence
  • Salesforce will support additional LLM providers this year, including Google Gemini and possibly OpenAI

    80% confidence
  • Every corporation is going to have an employee super agent, and Slackbot is going to be that

    80% confidence
  • Most of the net-new apps being deployed to Slack are agents, proving the promise of humans and agents coexisting

    80% confidence
  • New Slackbot is the fastest adopted product in Salesforce history

    80% confidence
  • We're still in the single agent world, and FY26 will be the year where we start to see more coordination between agents

    80% confidence
  • The old Slackbot was like a tricycle, and the new Slackbot is like a Porsche

    80% confidence
  • Rolling out Slackbot was practically one of the easiest enterprise technology implementations in over two decades

    80% confidence

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