Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear
techcrunch.comJulie Bort

Salesforce and Nvidia released Koa, an open-weight reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron, designed for sales, marketing, and customer-support automation. The model represents a shift toward specialized AI systems that can be deployed and customized outside centralized AI labs.
Why it mattersThis demonstrates how open-weight models enable enterprises to build domain-specific AI without dependency on closed AI labs, potentially disrupting the current power dynamics where a few large companies control advanced AI capabilities.
From the source: Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks.Read at techcrunch.com