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Salesforce Launches New Slackbot AI Agent Powered by Anthropic's Claude

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Impact: 80%

Updated 1h ago

Consensus Brief

Salesforce has launched a completely rebuilt version of Slackbot, transforming it into a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking actions on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot is available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers and aims to position Slack at the forefront of the agentic AI movement. Internal testing has shown high adoption and satisfaction rates among Salesforce employees.

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The new Slackbot is built on a large language model and advanced search capabilities, significantly enhancing its functionality compared to the previous version, which performed basic algorithmic tasks.

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Confirmed Fact

The new Slackbot is capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees.

Confirmed Fact

The new Slackbot runs on Claude, Anthropic's large language model, due to compliance requirements.

Confirmed Fact

Salesforce does not train any models on customer data.

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

Confirmed Fact

Internal satisfaction rates for the new Slackbot reached 96%.

Official Claim

Salesforce plans to support additional AI providers, including Google's Gemini and possibly OpenAI.

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

VentureBeat·Jan 13