Salesforce is a company that provides customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise software services. Recent coverage highlights Dreamforce drawing over 43,000 attendees with debates around AI and AI agents; Slack’s new Surfaces feature pulling data from apps including Salesforce to produce interactive reports; and talks reportedly about a ~$2B acquisition of Listen Labs that coincided with the startup dropping a $125M Series C.
Salesforce sees $63B revenue by fiscal 2030Salesforce provided a long-term outlook exceeding analyst estimates, projecting about $63 billion in revenue by fiscal 2030, indicating plans to sustain growth amid intensifying AI competition.
Jensen Huang Unveils Salesforce Reasoning Model KoaNVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at Dreamforce that Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model, Koa, was built by post‑training NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super; he stressed that safety is paramount and an engineering problem.
Anthropic, Salesforce CEOs call for more AI helpBloomberg cites Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff saying companies are only beginning to use AI tools and need more help to realize their full business benefits.
Salesforce debuts Koa reasoning model on Nvidia NemotronAt Dreamforce Salesforce unveiled Koa, its first reasoning model built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron, optimized for sales, marketing and customer-support tasks. Koa offers enterprises an open-weight alternative that was post-trained without ingesting customer data, integrates into Agentforce, and aims to reduce token costs while meeting data-security requirements.
Dreamforce draws 43,000+ amid AI debateSalesforce's Dreamforce in San Francisco drew over 43,000 attendees with AI and AI agents the main focus. Some participants praised tools like Claude and enterprise AI use, while figures such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged an industrywide slowdown of advanced AI development, sparking debate about safety versus pace.
Slack launches Surfaces for interactive reports in chatSlack's new Slackforce Surfaces lets users tell Slackbot what they need and uses AI to pull data from conversations and connected apps (like Google Drive or Salesforce) to create interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, and microsites that can be shared and pinned in channels.
Listen Labs scraps $125M Series C amid Salesforce talksListen Labs walked away from a signed $125M Series C term sheet—reportedly due to ongoing ~$2B acquisition talks with Salesforce—and may return to market at a $2B+ target if a deal collapses.
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