U.S.-based cloud software firm Salesforce on Thursday said its investment arm, Salesforce Ventures, in the last 18 months has deployed $500 million, half of the $1 billion it committed for AI innovation globally. Although the company didn’t disclose how much of these funds have come to AI start-ups in India, Salesforce chairperson and CEO Arundhati Bhattacharya said India was critical …
If 2023 was the year when ChatGPT reigned and 2024 was when a thousand large language models bloomed, 2025 will be the year of AI agents. Prediction six of twelve—SaaS is the new SaaS: As software-as-a-service gives way to service-as-a-software, AI will bundle up discrete steps in a typical enterprise workflow into an agentic AI software. These ‘New SaaS’ companies …
