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Your Slackbot just got a huge AI agent upgrade - what it can do now (starting today)

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Salesforce made Slackbot generally available.

Slackbot is an AI agent for work built in Slack.

Business+ and Enterprise+ customers can access it.

Slack is often a hub for all of your organization's communications, which includes documents, presentations, reports, lists, and more. This often makes it challenging to find what you need and, therefore, accomplish the task at hand. With Slackbot, Salesforce aims to simplify navigation of conversations on the platform.

New Slackbot

On Tuesday, Salesforce unveiled the new Slackbot, which is now available to the general public. It utilizes the context of your conversations, files, channels, and more to answer questions about your workflow and even take action on your behalf, such as scheduling meetings, from just a single text prompt.

Also: 6 Slack tips I swear by to turn a chaotic workspace into a well-oiled machine

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