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We’re no longer in the “let’s try a model” era. We’ve crossed into the territory of “make the model do your work.” For Oracle, that’s exactly where AI World 2025 landed.
This week, Oracle went beyond unveiling products by doubling down on its brand promise: reduce complexity so enterprises don’t have to stitch the stack. It’s a shift from experimentation to embedding, from model tuning to decision automation.
Infosys and Wipro executives said that enterprises are starting to operationalize artificial intelligence projects, scale agentic AI and build a new software stack as pilots move to production with industries such as banking and financial services leading the way.
Zoho has moved 1.1 million Government of India users to Zoho Workplace in a move that highlights how the vendor, known for its disruptive pricing and reach with smaller enterprises, can scale.
In addition, Zoho, which has more than 130 million users, rolled out a series of AI agents for its collaboration, human resources and customer experience apps across its platform.
Salesforce and Google expanded their existing partnership in a move that brings Google Gemini models to Agentforce 360, integrates Agentforce into Google Workspace for sales and IT service and brings Gemini Enterprise to Slack.
Salesforce executives said that growth is reaccelerating due to Agentforce deployments and it is projecting a long-term revenue target of $60 billion by fiscal 2030 excluding the Informatica purchase. The big question is whether new pricing plans designed to meet customers where they are will drive the growth.
Snowflake and Palantir said they will integrate Snowflake AI Data Cloud with Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP).
The two companies said the partnership will enable joint customers to build data pipelines, analytics and AI applications faster. Eaton, which is a power management company, is an early customer of the integration.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise gave an upbeat presentation on taking networking share and capitalizing on the AI infrastructure buildout, but its fiscal 2026 revenue growth forecast was lower than expected.
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison is never short of words. In his annual keynote at Oracle's AI World conference (previously Cloud World), Ellison held court for nearly two hours and riffed on a bevy of big AI ideas.
A good chunk of Ellison's talk revolved around talking up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's plans for a 1.2 billion-Watt AI Brain, which would be Oracle's largest data center with 500,000 Nvidia GPUs. Ellison also touted Oracle AI Data Platform, which will reason on public and private data.
IBM said it will acquire SAP S/4 HANA services specialist Cognitus in a deal that will expand its SAP AI-driven industry services.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
According to IBM, Cognitus will bring SAP skills in deploying the RISE and GROW programs with SAP as well as software assets. Cognitus, founded in 2002, offers SAP S/4HANA implementation services as well as application maintenance.
Citigroup CEO Jane Frasier said the bank has launched a pilot of AI agents for 5,000 employees. The agentic AI pilot is designed to complete multi-step tasks with a single prompt.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said the company has launched an initiative dubbed One Goldman Sachs 3.0, which will leverage AI to create a centralized operating model that's more efficient and drive growth.
Speaking on Goldman Sachs fiscal third quarter results, Solomon said:
To Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff context is king and without it agentic AI won't deliver.
In a Dreamforce keynote that highlighted Salesforce's large enterprise Agentforce adopters, Benioff repeatedly came back to context and context engineering, a term that's just gaining some momentum from companies like Elastic and Workday.
"AI alone is not enough. It's not enough just have an LLM. It needs (Agentforce) capabilities to connect it, to give it the context, to give it the guardrails, and all of the critical pieces," said Benioff.
Miro, which provides a visual workspace so teams can collaborate on projects, is looking to ease collaboration between AI and humans. The problem? AI has created "single player AI experiences" that can disrupt collaborative teamwork because people are in silos.
Oracle launched Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse and AI Data Platform as it extends its database dominance into broader AI platform ambitions.
The news, which was announced at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, highlights Oracle's long game, according to Constellation Research analyst Michael Ni. For the Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse, Oracle is looking to unlock multiple clouds and formats for existing customers rather than migrate enterprises.
Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360.
At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce said it has expanded a partnership with OpenAI so customers can access Agentforce 360 in ChatGPT. Salesforce customers will be able to access sales records, review conversations and build Tableau visualizations from within ChatGPT.
Nvidia's DGX Spark mini supercomputer is now available for $3,999 from Nvidia and PC makers such as Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HPI, Lenovo and MSI and it'll be interesting to see how impacts inference and physical AI plans.
Amazon Web Services said Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is generally available and said the AgentCore software development kit has seen more than 1 million downloads from customers.
OpenAI will design its own AI accelerators and chips in deal with Broadcom that will start in the second half of 2026 and run through 2029.
According to the companies, the deal covers 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators. OpenAI has forged partnerships with AMD and Nvidia as it builds out its infrastructure.
Salesforce announced a series of product updates, a process intelligence acquisition and an Agentforce 360 architecture designed to make the case that it should orchestrate first and third party AI agents.
Neptune Insurance Holdings has successfully completed its initial public offering with a business model that revolves around applying data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide flood insurance. The company may be well on its way to being an AI exponential.