While I was at Symposium/ITxpo, my colleague Dan Farber was attending salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference where the company announced that its Java/SQL-esque Apex programming language would be ...

Salesforce.com's Apex programming language has been hailed by some as a significant milestone in short history of Web on demand applications. But at this point it is still of form of vaporware that ...

Language matters and it provides a great deal of context for history and for culture. It's not something that should be treated as trivial and companies have a responsibility to try and ensure that ...

Salesforce.com is set to preview a new programming language and platform at its annual Dreamforce 06 Conference, underway this week in San Francisco (Oct 9-11). Dubbed Apex, it's designed to allow ...

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For much of the past year, Salesforce has been one of the loudest corporate advocates of generative artificial intelligence, ...

The race to release open source generative AI models is heating up. Salesforce has joined the bandwagon by launching XGen-7B, a large language model that supports longer context windows than the ...

Salesforce is scaling back its use of generative AI after facing reliability challenges. The shift highlights growing ...

Salesforce now lets users type natural-language queries to extract interesting nuggets from their Salesforce data in Einstein Analytics. (Salesforce Image) For lots of people, trying to use powerful ...