Salesforce plans to invest $ 1 billion in Singapore over the next five years as it seeks to fuel the adoption of its AI agent development platform, Agentforce. Salesforce claimed that Agentforce can help alleviate Singapore’s ongoing labor issues and augment the country’s workforce and enterprises by creating “digital workforces” that combine humans with autonomous […]
Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck. Startups are looking to make data centers more […]
Why this AI startup is betting on voice-enabled bots to scale AI adoption in India
If your target market has 22 official languages and its people speak in over 19,000 dialects, does it make sense to offer a text-only AI chatbot that can function best in a couple languages? That’s the question Indian AI startup Sarvam has been working to solve, and on Tuesday it launched a series of offerings, […]
SAP to acquire digital adoption platform WalkMe for $1.5B
Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $ 1.5 billion. WalkMe’s Nasdaq closing price yesterday was $ 9.64, with SAP’s $ 14 offer representing a premium of 45%. Founded out of Israel in 2011, WalkMe was initially designed to simplify website navigation by providing real-time, contextual […]
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales
Solar panels practically sold themselves in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent electricity prices skyrocketing. Now, as prices have begun to fall, solar installers have found themselves spending more on marketing to attract customers. One proven way to win more business has been to offer financing. But small operations usually don’t have the resources […]