Salesforce Announces AI Cloud – Generative AI Tool for the Enterprises

Salesforce has introduced AI Cloud, a cutting-edge solution designed to empower their customers in enhancing customer experiences and boosting company productivity through enterprise-grade generative AI. 

AI Cloud comprises a suite of capabilities specifically optimized to provide trusted, open, and real-time generative experiences across various applications and workflows. The innovative Einstein GPT Trust Layer within AI Cloud addresses concerns about risk associated with adopting generative AI.

It ensures that customers can meet their enterprise data security and compliance requirements while reaping the benefits of this technology. With this powerful combination of capabilities and security, Salesforce solidifies its position as the leading AI CRM provider.

At the core of AI Cloud is Einstein, the world's first AI for CRM, which powers over 1 trillion predictions per week across Salesforce's applications. With generative AI, Einstein helps make every company and employee more productive and efficient across sales, service, marketing, and commerce.

AI Cloud will boost sales reps to quickly auto-generate personalized emails tailored to their customer’s needs, and service teams to auto-generate personalized agent chat replies and case summaries. Marketers can auto-generate personalized content to engage customers and prospects across email, mobile, web, and advertising. Commerce teams can auto-generate insights and recommendations to deliver customized commerce experiences at every step of the buyer’s journey. And, developers can auto-generate code, predict potential bugs in code, and suggest fixes.

Why trusted generative AI counts in the industry?

Company leaders want to embrace generative AI, but are wary of the risks – hallucinations, toxicity, privacy, bias, and data governance concerns are creating a trust gap. New Salesforce research found that 73% of employees believe generative AI introduces new security risks. It is nearly 60% of those who plan to use the technology don't know how to keep data secure.

AI Cloud will help fill that trust gap with the new Einstein GPT Trust Layer. The Einstein GPT Trust Layer will help prevent large-language models (LLMs) from retaining sensitive customer data. This separation of sensitive data from the LLM will help customers maintain data governance controls while still leveraging the immense potential of generative AI. The Einstein GPT Trust Layer sets a new industry standard for secure generative AI for the enterprise.

“AI is reshaping our world and transforming business in ways we never imagined, and every company needs to become AI-first,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO, Salesforce. “AI Cloud, built on the #1 CRM, is the fastest and easiest way for our customers to unleash the incredible power of AI, with trust at the center driven by our new Einstein GPT Trust Layer. AI Cloud will unlock incredible innovation, productivity, and efficiency for every company.”

Go profound: AI Cloud provides the future of trusted enterprise generative AI

AI Cloud will integrate Salesforce technologies, including Einstein, Data Cloud, Tableau, Flow, and MuleSoft. Which will provide trusted, open generative AI that is enterprise ready.

Trusted and Open: The Einstein GPT Trust Layer will enable companies to get started with trusted generative AI faster by optimizing the right model for the right task. It will also provide deployment capabilities for any relevant LLM while helping companies maintain their data privacy, security, residency, and compliance goals.

Use of Third-Party LLMs

As part of Salesforce's commitment to an open ecosystem; AI Cloud is designed to host LLMs from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic, Cohere, and others — entirely within Salesforce’s infrastructure. AI Cloud will help maintain customer prompts and responses in the Salesforce infrastructure. In addition, Salesforce and OpenAI have established a shared trust partnership to deliver joint content moderation using OpenAI's leading Enterprise API. It is the best safety tool in conjunction with the Einstein GPT Trust Layer which keeps data retained in Salesforce.

Use of Salesforce LLM

AI Cloud will enable customers to use Salesforce LLMs developed by Salesforce AI Research to power advanced capabilities such as code generation and business process automation assistance; fundamentally transforming how businesses interact with their CRM software. Salesforce’s LLMs – including CodeGen, CodeT5+, and CodeTF – help companies increase productivity. It bridges the talent gap, reduces the cost of implementations, and better detects incidents.

Bring Your Model (BYOM)

Customers who have trained their domain-specific models outside of Salesforce. It will benefit from AI Cloud while storing data on its infrastructure. These models, whether running through Amazon SageMaker or Google's Vertex AI; will connect directly to AI Cloud through the Einstein GPT Trust Layer. In this scenario, customer data can remain within the customers' trust boundaries.

Business Ready: AI will fuel more than $15 trillion in global economic growth and boost GDP by 26% by 2030*. Furthermore, AI Cloud will harness the full power of Salesforce, helping make companies and employees more productive and efficient.

Generative AI across every Salesforce application

Salesforce is bringing trusted generative AI to every product with Sales GPT, Service GPT, Marketing GPT, Commerce GPT, Slack GPT, Tableau GPT, Flow GPT, and Apex GPT. See more about Salesforce’s trusted, open, and business-ready generative AI-powered applications here.

Prompt template and builders

The prompts used to generate AI content directly influence the quality and relevance of the generated content. Salesforce is developing optimized AI prompts that use harmonized data to ground generated outputs in every company’s unique context. These context-rich prompts will help sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT teams get instant value from trusted generative AI. Consequently, without hallucinations, while reducing time and cost.

The customer perspective

“Our goal is to deliver more personalized member engagement and make our processes more efficient and cost-effective. Moreover, It drives innovation across our team within a safe and trusted environment,” said Shohreh Abedi, EVP, Chief Operations Technology Officer, and Member Experience at AAA – The Auto Club Group. “We're accelerating our digital transformation with Salesforce, and AI Cloud will help us implement AI across our entire business. Subsequently, including DevOps, support, sales, and underwriting.”

“Embedding AI into our CRM has delivered huge operational efficiencies for our advisors and clients,” said Greg Beltzer, Head of Tech for RBC US Wealth Management. “We believe that this technology has the potential to transform the way businesses interact with their customers; deliver personalized experiences, and drive customer loyalty. We are excited to explore this opportunity with Salesforce and drive the next generation of personalized customer experiences.”

Pricing and Availability

To accelerate revenue and productivity, businesses can now access the AI Cloud Starter pack at an annual cost of $360,000. This comprehensive package includes essential building blocks such as Data Cloud, MuleSoft automation, Einstein, Tableau Analytics, Slack, CRM, and a complimentary AI-readiness assessment conducted by Salesforce Professional Services.