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AI Meets Sales with Salesforce Agents

Salesforce just announced new AI-driven autonomous agents designed specifically for sales teams. These AI agents are going to shake up the sales game by automating those mundane tasks, delivering real-time insights, coaching your team, and boosting customer interactions.

The 2 Agents:

• Einstein Sales Development Rep Agent: Einstein SDR is an autonomous agent that qualifies leads, engages customers with personalized interactions, and seamlessly transitions them to human sellers, optimizing sales efficiency.

• Einstein Sales Coach Agent: The Sales Coach Agent can recreate a buyer’s persona and engage in mock pricing discussions, helping sellers refine their strategies. Imagine having a sales coach on demand?

Why it matters:

Autonomous AI agents surpass AI copilots by not just offering advice but also independently executing tasks and making decisions within predefined limits. Salesforce’s introduction of AI-driven autonomous agents marks a significant step forward in the evolution of sales technology.

The World Robot Conference 2024 in Beijing showcased the latest advancements in robotics, with a special focus on humanoid robots designed to look and interact like humans.

Among the highlights were viral robot women roaming the halls of the conference (which apparently were fake robots, talk about an oxymoron). The women were seen eating lunch shortly after…

AI Coding is Hot, So Hot it’s Worth $1B

Yeah you read that right, AI-driven coding assistants have amassed nearly $1B of funding since the start of last year. VC’s are literally rushing to pour money into the latest wave of unicorns.

• One of my favorite coding assistants so far has been Cursor, mainly because engineers are able to see diffs on files even before writing the code. Anysphere, the team behind Cursor, has already raised $60M in Series A funding.

• Other companies such as Replit, Magic, Augment, Supermaven, and Poolside make up the other $846M.

Why it matters:

The surge in investment in AI coding assistants signals that programming is the first job function being drastically transformed by AI technology.

Hadi Partovi, CEO of Code.org, likens the impact of AI on software engineering to the effect of word processors on writing, emphasizing that AI is now integral to the field.

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Google recently shipped its new Prompt Gallery as part of its AI Studio. The gallery comes preloaded with a wide spectrum of prompts to help with long-form text analysis, multimodal cases, and much more… practitioners are already loving it and here’s how you can get started:

1. Navigate to Google AI Studio.

2. On the left sidebar, click on Prompt Gallery.

3. Select a prompt to get started with for your use-case and begin ideating with AI right away!

My personal favorite so far has been the recipe creator which suggests recipes from just an image 🍪 .

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Meta's Silent Web Crawl Stirring Up Big Questions - Meta has reportedly been quietly deploying new web scrapers to gather vast amounts of data for training its AI models. Ethical? Maybe not, but the technology giant has apparently been doing this for years.

Google DeepMind Employees Author Open Letter - Around 200 employees at Google DeepMind have signed an open letter urging the company to cease its contracts with military organizations. The letter raises concerns that DeepMind’s AI technology could be used for warfare, potentially violating Google’s own AI principles.

Fine-Tune GPT-4o, Because One Size Doesn't Fit All - OpenAI has launched fine-tuning capabilities for GPT-4o, allowing developers to customize the model to better suit specific applications.

IBM
What Are Word Embeddings? - Word embeddings are fundamental to understanding how natural language is processed by AI models - IBM does a great job breaking it down in this video.

YouTube
Try this Before RAG. This New Approach Could Save You Thousands! - This video from Prompt Engineering highlights the benefits of prompt caching, which also was recently released in Anthropic’s Claude models.

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