Salesforce plans to hire 1,000 to help market AI agent platform: report
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- Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) plans to hire 1,000 new employees to help sell its new generative artificial intelligence platform known as Agentforce, according to Bloomberg.
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the mass hiring will help his company capitalize on the momentum from its new product Agentforce, the report said.
- “Go beyond copilots and deploy limitless AI agents that take action across your business 24/7—from resolving cases to qualifying leads,” Salesforce said in a post on X last week regarding Agentforce.
- The new platform, released about two weeks ago, allows businesses to build autonomous AI agents. It might provide a multi-billion dollar opportunity, according to the analysts at Stifel. Salesforce has also partnered with Google Cloud (GOOG)(GOOGL) and Nvidia (NVDA) to improve the capabilities of these agents.
- ServiceNow (NOW) and Microsoft (MSFT) are developing similar autonomous agents.
- Salesforce shares climbed 3.5% during Friday afternoon trading.