Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Publish Date: 2026-01-13 08:00:00
Source Domain: venturebeat.com
- Salesforce unveiled an upgraded, fully powered AI agent version of Slackbot designed to search enterprise data, draft documents, and automate actions.
- This new Slackbot runs on Anthropic’s large language model (LLM) and has robust search capabilities.
- Salesforce’s internal tests showed the new Slackbot as the fastest adopted product in the company’s history and the most satisfying AI feature delivered.
- The advanced Slackbot transforms and synthesizes enterprise data for executive insights and integrates easily with Salesforce, Google Drive, calendar data and Slack conversations.
- Although free, some customers could face costs related to Salesforce’s broader data strategy.
- Salesforce aims to position Slackbot as the future workplace super agent coordinating with various other AI agents.
