MAROKO133 Hot ai: Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and G

📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Mi

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees.

The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "agentic AI" movement — where software agents work alongside humans to complete complex tasks. The launch comes as Salesforce attempts to convince investors that artificial intelligence will bolster its products rather than render them obsolete.

"Slackbot isn't just another copilot or AI assistant," said Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and Slack's chief technology officer, in an exclusive interview with Salesforce. "It's the front door to the agentic enterprise, powered by Salesforce."

From tricycle to Porsche: Salesforce rebuilt Slackbot from the ground up

Harris was blunt about what distinguishes the new Slackbot from its predecessor: "The old Slackbot was, you know, a little tricycle, and the new Slackbot is like, you know, a Porsche."

The original Slackbot, which has existed since Slack's early days, performed basic algorithmic tasks — reminding users to add colleagues to documents, suggesting channel archives, and delivering simple notifications. The new version runs on an entirely different architecture built around a large language model and sophisticated search capabilities that can access Salesforce records, Google Drive files, calendar data, and years of Slack conversations.

"It's two different things," Harris explained. "The old Slackbot was algorithmic and fairly simple. The new Slackbot is brand new — it's based around an LLM and a very robust search engine, and connections to third-party search engines, third-party enterprise data."

Salesforce chose to retain the Slackbot brand despite the fundamental technical overhaul. "People know what Slackbot is, and so we wanted to carry that forward," Harris said.

Why Anthropic's Claude powers the new Slackbot — and which AI models could come next

The new Slackbot runs on Claude, Anthropic's large language model, a choice driven partly by compliance requirements. Slack's commercial service operates under FedRAMP Moderate certification to serve U.S. federal government customers, and Harris said Anthropic was "the only provider that could give us a compliant LLM" when Slack began building the new system.

But that exclusivity won't last. "We are, this year, going to support additional providers," Harris said. "We have a great relationship with Google. Gemini is incredible — performance is great, cost is great. So we're going to use Gemini for some things." He added that OpenAI remains a possibility as well.

Harris echoed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's view that large language models are becoming commoditized: "You've heard Marc talk about LLMs are commodities, that they're democratized. I call them CPUs."

On the sensitive question of training data, Harris was unequivocal: Salesforce does not train any models on customer data. "Models don't have any sort of security," he explained. "If we trained it on some confidential conversation that you and I have, I don't want Carolyn to know — if I train it into the LLM, there is no way for me to say you get to see the answer, but Carolyn doesn't."

Inside Salesforce's internal experiment: 80,000 employees tested Slackbot with striking results

Salesforce has been testing the new Slackbot internally for months, rolling it out to all 80,000 employees. According to Ryan Gavin, Slack's chief marketing officer, the results have been striking: "It's the fastest adopted product in Salesforce history."

Internal data shows that two-thirds of Salesforce employees have tried the new Slackbot, with 80% of those users continuing to use it regularly. Internal satisfaction rates reached 96% — the highest for any AI feature Slack has shipped. Employees report saving between two and 20 hours per week.

The adoption happened largely organically. "I think it was about five days, and a Canvas was developed by our employees called 'The Most Stealable Slackbot Prompts,'" Gavin said. "People just started adding to it organically. I think it's up to 250-plus prompts that are in this Canvas right now."

Kate Crotty, a principal UX researcher at Salesforce, found that 73% of internal adoption was driven by social sharing rather than top-down mandates. "Everybody is there to help each other learn and communicate hacks," she said.

How Slackbot transforms scattered enterprise data into executive-ready insights

During a product demonstration, Amy Bauer, Slack's product experience designer, showed how Slackbot can synthesize information across multiple sources. In one example, she asked Slackbot to analyze customer feedback from a pilot program, upload an image of a usage dashboard, and have Slackbot correlate the qualitative and quantitative data.

"This is where Slackbot really earns its keep for me," Bauer explained. "What it's doing is not just simply reading the image — it's actually looking at the image and comparing it to the insight it just generated for me."

Slackbot can then query Salesforce to find enterprise accounts with open deals that might be good candidates for early access, creating what Bauer called "a really great justification and plan to move forward." Finally, it can synthesize all that information into a Canvas — Slack's collaborative document format — and find calendar availability among stakeholders to schedule a review meeting.

"Up until this point, we have been working in a one-to-one capacity with Slackbot," Bauer said. "But one of the benefits that I can do now is take this insight and have it generate this into a Canvas, a shared workspace where I can iterate on it, refine it with Slackbot, or share it out with my team."

Rob Seaman, Slack's chief product officer, said the Canvas creation demonstrates where the product is heading: "This is making a tool call internally to Slack Canvas to actually write, effectively, a shared document. But it signals where we're going with Slackbot — we're eventually going to be adding in additional third-party tool calls."

MrBeast's company became a Slackbot guinea pig—and employees say they're saving 90 minutes a day

Among Salesforce's pilot customers is Beast Industries, the parent company of YouTube star MrBeast. Luis Madrigal, the company's chief information officer, joined the launch announcement to describe his experience.

"As somebody who has rolled out enterprise technologies for over two decades now, this was practically one of the easiest," Madrigal …

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🔗 Sumber: venturebeat.com

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: China’s tech giant unveils 1,900 hp concept EV to muscle into

China’s tech giant Xiaomi (Mi) has just unveiled a Vision Gran Turismo (VGT) concept supercar at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 in Barcelona. This officially makes the company the first in 28 years to do so.

VGT, in case you are unaware, is a program that lets manufacturers design wild, no-rules hypercars that exist primarily in the game. Some brands build physical show cars, but they’re not production vehicles.

The Vision GT features a radical, low-slung, aerodynamically sculpted body with scissor doors, a dramatic carbon-fiber rear wing, T-shaped lighting, and aggressive ducting that blends hypercar theatrics with functional airflow engineering.

While interesting news, it is important to note that this is not yet intended for production, and not something potential customers can preorder. It is, however, something of a high-tech marketing statement and showcase of the company’s engineering ambitions and capabilities.

Xiaomi muscles into hypercar territory

Xiaomi is one of China’s largest consumer electronics and smart device manufacturers, best known globally for its smartphones. However, they have been making inroads into the electric vehicle (EV) industry in recent years.

For this reason, the release of this concept is rather big news for Xiaomi, as VGT has historically been dominated by the likes of Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW.

Another twist to the story is that Xiaomi’s supercar concept comes with a 900V Silicon Carbide (SiC) platform. To put that into perspective (while bearing in mind this is just a concept), most EVs today come with 400V architecture.

Some higher-end models, like Porsche’s Taycan, tend to max out at 800V. A SiC architecture would, in theory, give the car higher efficiency and less heat loss.

It would also enable faster charging and better high-performance output. If achievable in the real world, that would also be a big deal. Xiaomi claims the supecar concept would have an eye-watering 1,900 hp (1,417 kW).

That would dwarf the likes of Ferrari’s Vision GT with a claimed 1,337 hp (997 kW). But it is not out of the realms of possibility with Xiaomi’s production SU7 Ultra able to pump out in excess of 1,500 hp (1,119 kW).

European EV expansion dreams

As for the concept car’s unveiling at the WMC, this is also not a random event. WMC is one of Europe’s largest tech showcase events and ties in nicely to the company’s vision to expand into the market around 2027.

Xiaomi has also previously confirmed its ambitions to open a Munich-based research and development center and finalize its UK retail rollout plans. Given the company’s bread and butter of producing consumer electronic products, you might be forgiven for wondering how committed they are to pivoting into EV automaking.

Well, according to reports, they are making some headway, with delivery of around 410,000 EVs in 2025 alone. They were also reportedly able to outsell Tesla Model 3’s in China with its SU7.

The company also managed to produce around 500,000 cars in 602 days from launch, and set a Nürburgring production EV lap record (7:04.957) with the SU7 Ultra. So, it would seem, they can match their ambition after all.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com