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

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

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: 2,100-year-old Greek bullet with sarcastic inscribed messag

A 2,100-year-old sling bullet with a sarcastic inscribed message “learn” attached was found in the holy land, on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel.

“Learn your lesson,” “learn never to come back here,” whatever the cryptic “learn” referred to, the Greek defenders of the city of Hippos delivered a message to the Hasmonean army of King Alexander Jannaeus along with a fatal blow.

Just published in the peer-reviewed journal “Palestine Exploration Quarterly” last week, the authors described the discovery of a “unique” lead sling bullet on an ancient road. Most likely, it had been launched at attackers advancing towards the city, with this menacing message in Greek: ΜΑΘΟΥ.

The find joins a group of 69 lead sling bullets uncovered at Hippos in 26 years. Whereas others feature a scorpion or a thunderbolt, this rare bullet is the first one that archaeologists have uncovered with a “sassy” reply to an army seeking to capture the city — like, “nice try.”

First inscribed sling bullet ever discovered

Researchers from the University of Haifa were excavating a Roman necropolis near Hippos when they uncovered a lead bullet, about 1.3 inches long and weighing just under a pound, according to the study.

As an archaeologist on the project said, these types of sling bullets are well known in the Hellenistic period, as they were one of the most common weapons used, as they were cheap and effective, according to The Times of Israel. “But this is the first in the world to bear the inscription,” as stated in Live Science.

The inscription would have sent enemies quite an impression as it was burned into the stone with molten lead, as if daring the attackers to continue their useless advance, Live Science continues.  “This represents local sarcastic humor…” wishing to “teach their enemies a lesson with a wink.” So, some kind of early emoji.

Others, as The Times of Israel reports, these types of munitions in the Israel-Syrian region bore groups of thunderbolts tied up together to symbolize a sledgehammer coming from Zeus, or a trident, to align their force with the power of god, but this word “learn” intended to deliver a different tone.

Stay away, it’s a good idea from you

Archaeologists continued that the construction of the word would suggest that the stone was speaking to the enemy army, “I’m learning,” to hit you. So the bullet communicated to the enemy that they should not come here —they will be sorry that they did. Other inscriptions have been found, such as “catch,” as in “catch this.”

Study authors said,  “The letters may be better understood in connection with another convention for sling bullet inscriptions, also attested in Iudaea-Palaestina. The sling bullets linked to the military actions of Diodotus (Tryphon) from Kasiane in the second century BCE carry sarcastic inscriptions, the sort commonly found on these projectiles, addressed to the enemy: γϵῦσαι, ‘take a taste’. Even in Homer, γϵύομαι can mean ‘to experience’ a blow, as Weiß points out.  Other examples of the mocking battle slogans are δέξαι (‘Receive this!’) and λαβέ (‘Take it!’).

And, according to what archaeologists can detect, the bullet did hit something, but what? They can’t confirm. “We don’t know if it was a rock or a person, but there was definitely an impact,” Haifa University’s Michael Eisenberg concluded in The Times of Israel.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com