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Alibaba Cloud is seeing more AI workloads, accelerating revenue growth and benefiting from its Qwen open source family of models.
Salesforce is evolving its Agentforce pricing from a model based on $2 per conversation to a more flexible credit model. Ultimately, customers will be able to transition contracts to incorporate more credits.
Cisco reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings as the company saw a surge in AI infrastructure demand and strong results from Splunk.
Agentic AI protocols have coalesced around Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google Cloud's Agent2Agent, but Boomi experts expect protocols to emerge to create a crowded field.
Boomi CEO Steve Lucas talked about AI agents, orchestration, transformation, AWS and going to ServiceNow CRM to name just a few topics.
Boomi said that it has more than 33,000 Boomi AI Agents deployed across enterprises as it rolled out new agents for Boomi Enterprise and Boomi Agentstudio went generally available.
Databricks said it will acquire Neon, which offers serverless Postgres database services. Databricks' move into the database market is part of its plan to enable agentic AI workloads.
The Stargate Project is currently eyeing as many as three sites for AI data centers and Softbank executives said due diligence is currently underway on multiple proposals.
Asana and Monday.com are seeing customers increase use of AI actions as both companies--along with the likes of Atlassian and Smartsheet--aim to coordinate AI agents and humans.
Enterprises are pursuing AI agents as part of a broader transformation and automation push. Here’s a look at the projects we’re watching for May.
Classiq, a quantum computing software company, said it raised $110 million in Series C funding. The company is looking to build the software stack for quantum computing.
