Summary

  • Salesforce has announced a major upgrade to its Agentforce digital labour platform, which enables autonomous AI agents to work proactively and independently across enterprise systems, without the need for constant human supervision.
  • The platform supports a multi-agent framework, where personal AI assistants interact with enterprise agents to complete tasks, with the final approval from humans.
  • It includes a suite of new tools to accelerate the adoption of its agent technology, including a developer edition for creating prototypes, AI assistance in Agent Builder, a testing centre for evaluating agent configurations at scale and an Exchange marketplace with over 200 partners and pre-built agent components.
  • Healthcare is a key industry that Salesforce is targeting with Agentforce for Health, which aims to reduce administrative burdens on healthcare providers.

By Michael Nuñez

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