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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 Update ai: Kung fu ‘master’: China’s new humanoid robot nails tough ae

Agibot has unveiled the Expedition A3 humanoid robot, showcasing dynamic mid-air maneuvers and rapid spinning movements.

A video shows the robot executing a sequence of high-difficulty Kung Fu maneuvers, including aerial flying kicks, back-to-back airborne strikes, and controlled mid-air steps.

Experts highlight that the action showcases its advanced balance, coordination, and dynamic motion capabilities, pushing humanoid robotics closer to real-world agility and dynamic combat-style movement.

Last week, the Chinese robotics firm staged Agibot Night, a 60-minute robot-led gala featuring 16 humanoids performing music, dance, and comedy.

Immersive AI humanoid

Agibot claims the stunts were filmed entirely in real-world conditions without CGI or AI-generated effects. The video shows the robot executing a continuous sequence of complex movements inside a training studio, highlighting its balance, coordination, and full-body control, reports Pan Daily.

Expedition A3 is built for high-frequency interactive settings such as retail guidance, promotional events, and entertainment performances. Instead of focusing on isolated technical demonstrations, the platform is designed to provide immersive, multimodal interaction services.

The robot features highly anthropomorphic full-body degrees of freedom, including a flexible waist engineered to mirror the human range of motion. A lightweight exoskeleton-style leg structure improves stability and agility. Its robotic arms can handle payloads of up to 3 kilograms, with a tool center point speed reaching 2 meters per second, reports Pan Daily.

Battery capacity has been enhanced through an embedded dual-battery torso system, extending operating time to up to eight hours. Fast battery-swapping technology enables coverage of a full work shift.

An end-to-end large AI model powers wake-word-free conversations and shoulder-tap activation for more natural interaction. Mass production is planned for 2026, with shipments projected to exceed 5,100 units by the end of 2025 and potentially reach tens of thousands in 2026.

Robots take stage

Agibot staged Agibot Night, a 60-minute gala in Shanghai on February 7, led entirely by robots powered by embodied intelligence. Sixteen humanoid robots performed music, dance, and comedy, executing flips, rapid spins, synchronized group routines, and runway-style walks with steady balance and precise timing.

The event was designed to be more than just a product showcase. According to company executives, it marked a milestone demonstrating how embodied intelligence is moving from laboratory research into real-world social and cultural environments. Sustained, high-intensity performances also served as a live test of system stability, coordination, and consistency across multiple robots operating simultaneously.

Collaborative acts featured human performers dancing alongside Agibot’s G2 humanoid robots and D1 quadruped robots, highlighting real-time motion alignment between people and machines. Other segments included card magic, floating illusions, and comedic skits, in which humanoids displayed improved timing, expressive behavior, and coordinated role interactions.

The company presented its full robot lineup. The A2 series handled multimodal interaction and autonomous navigation in presentation settings. The compact X2 series demonstrated natural conversation and human-like walking suited to education and entertainment. The industrial G2 series focused on force-controlled handling for factories and logistics, while the D1 quadruped robots showcased mobility for inspection and operational tasks.

In January, Agibot announced its entry into the US humanoid market at CES 2026, unveiling ready-to-use embodied robots. The lineup includes three humanoids and one quadruped designed for real-world deployment.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com