The Future of Sales: AI Agents

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Salesforce is launching two AI agents that help sales teams autonomously engage with leads and provide personalized coaching.

With 24/7 support, automated repetitive tasks, and AI-powered insights, are we headed into a new era of sales? Let's get into it…

In today’s AI news:

• Salesforce unveils AI agents for sales
• Nvidia and Mistral make laptop-ready AI
• New AI breakthrough in solar tech
• More AI & tech news

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Salesforce unveils AI agents for sales

The News: Salesforce just introduced two fully autonomous, AI-powered sales agents, Einstein SDR Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent, designed to help sales teams accelerate growth through automation and personalization.

The details:

• Einstein SDR Agent engages with inbound leads 24/7 to answer questions, handle objections, and book meetings.
• Einstein Sales Coach Agent helps salespeople rehearse pitches and offers real-time suggestions during calls.
• The agents both leverage Salesforce’s CRM data and external data uploaded via Data Cloud to generate accurate, contextually relevant responses.
• The agents will be generally available in October, with more details expected to be released at Dreamforce conference in September.

Why it matters: By integrating AI agents into existing platforms, Salesforce is lowering the barrier for AI adoption in business processes. These agents offer 24/7 support and automate repetitive tasks like qualifying leads and booking meetings, freeing human sales teams to focus on high-value tasks and potentially close more deals.

Nvidia and Mistral make laptop-ready AI

The News: Nvidia and Mistral just released Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a highly accurate small language model that can run efficiently on laptops and PCs.

The details:

• The model uses optimization techniques like pruning (removing certain weights) and distillation (retraining the pruned model on a small dataset) to achieve high accuracy with a smaller footprint.
• These optimizations resulted in up to 40x cost savings in terms of raw compute during training.
• Laptops and PCs can run the model locally for faster and more secure interactions with AI.
• Minitron 8B leads nine language-driven AI benchmarks for similarly sized models from language understanding to reasoning and coding.

Why it matters: AI models that are small enough to run locally on laptops and PCs means less reliance on cloud services, improved data privacy, and faster responses. As this tech evolves, we could soon see advanced AI in everything from smartphones and watches to home appliances.

New AI breakthrough in solar tech

The News: Researchers just developed a new AI-based method called NES-VMC that can accurately calculate the excited states of atoms and molecules, a challenge in physics and chemistry that previously delayed improvements in solar tech.

The details:

• NES-VMC (natural excited states variational Monte Carlo) accurately predicted quantum excited states on systems ranging from single atoms to benzene-sized molecules.
• The method outperforms leading computational chemistry techniques, often achieving chemical accuracy.
• Excited states are crucial for understanding light-matter interactions, key to improving solar cells, LEDs, lasers, and more.
• NES-VMC overcomes long-standing challenges in physics and chemistry that have hindered progress in these fields.

Why it matters: This AI-driven breakthrough could lead to more efficient solar cells, brighter LEDs, and more powerful lasers. The ripple effects could be dramatic: lower electricity costs, improvements in phone and laptop battery life and displays, faster fiber-optic internet, and so much more.

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QUICK HITS

Boston Dynamics posted a new video of its Atlas robot doing push-ups, showcasing advancements in dynamic movement control.

AI21 Labs unveiled Jamba 1.5, a multilingual AI model series with 256,000 context length and permissive licensing for smaller organizations.

Krea AI added Flux 1, an advanced text-to-image AI model, to its platform with 3-minute free generations for non-subscribed users.

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Anthropic launched LaTeX rendering support for Claude, enabling the AI chatbot to display mathematical equations and expressions consistently.

Google DeepMind employees urged the company to end military contracts, citing concerns over AI use in warfare and surveillance.

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