Microsoft unveils new sales agents

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Today’s Insights

• Amazon’s next move, agents for all, and beating Mario

• Microsoft unveils new agents that can tackle sales on their own

• Tutorial: How to create a portfolio website with AI

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. Amazon has its own reasoning model in the works: The e-commerce giant isn’t letting an $8B partnership with Anthropic get in the way of its AI ambitions. It plans to take on DeepSeek and OpenAI with its own chain-of-thought model, which could be ready by June. The LLM will be a “hybrid” that can seamlessly move between speedy responses and more thought-out ones just like Anthropic’s recently released Claude 3.7 — but supposedly with even better efficiency.

2. Salesforce launches first-ever marketplace for AI agents: Salesforce predicts agents — AI that can do complex tasks for you — will add $6T to the global economy by 2030. To speed up that transformation, the software giant just unveiled AgentExchange, a platform that lets companies easily find pre-built agents or design their own with templates. Users can even leave reviews, helping the best agents rise to the top.

3. Frontier LLMs face their toughest test yet — beating Super Mario: Researchers at UC San Diego found that the 1985 Nintendo game is an especially useful tool to test models’ problem-solving skills. That’s because the LLMs don’t get any special training — they’re just expected to learn the ropes based on prompts and screenshots. So far, Claude 3.7 has held onto the top slot, leaving Gemini 1.5 and GPT-4o in the dust. It happens to be especially good at Pokémon, too.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Microsoft’s new AI agent helps sales teams land more deals

When Microsoft was brainstorming which roles to create a new AI agent for, sales quickly rose to the top of the list. That’s because both sellers and their clients say they’re weighed down by monotonous tasks that can make it harder to close deals. “The experience today is so brittle and fragile and unloved,” Bryan Goode, Microsoft’s CVP of Business Applications and Platform, told Superhuman.

That’s where the company’s new Sales Development Agent comes in:

• Microsoft says it can research leads, set up meetings, and even close low-level deals on its own.

• “If you’re a seller, one of the things that’s so tough is the fact that your quota’s going up — you’ve got to find a way every year to be better than the year before,” Goode said.

• The goal is to give sellers more time to land bigger deals that still require a human touch.

Microsoft is also rolling out a Sales Chat Agent in Copilot that can help you quickly research a new account — bringing together key details from the web, CRM data, pitch decks, and your own meetings. Finally, it’s launching an AI accelerator for sales — a program that teaches sales teams how to integrate AI into their workflows.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

 Chip Leap: Apple unveiled a new iPad Air with an M3 chip and access to Apple Intelligence. Its neural engine helps it tackle AI-related work 60% faster than its M1-based predecessors.

⚖️ Case Semi-Closed: In a legal setback for Elon Musk, a California judge rejected his bid to block OpenAI's transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit organization, though other elements of his lawsuit remain active.

🔬 Scholar Spark: OpenAI is giving $50M in grants and compute funding to 15 top institutions — including Harvard, MIT, and Duke — to help drive discoveries in healthcare, energy, and more.

👀 Vision Victory: Canadian AI company Cohere released an open-source, multimodal vision model that achieves frontier performance on tasks like image captioning and text generation across 23 languages.

👓 Gadgets Galore: Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress continues this week with a screen that folds up like a briefcase, a budget-friendly AI phone, and smart glasses designed for cycling.

💰 Funding: E-commerce company Swap raised $40M in a Series B funding round. It builds AI tools that can predict which products will be most in demand by analyzing warehouse stocks, returns, and other data. And Auxia, a startup founded by Meta and Alphabet alums, raised $23.5M in a Series A round to help firms analyze customer data with AI.

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🔄 AI Entrepreneur: Watch investor Codie Sanchez try using ChatGPT Operator to start a “$1,000 business from scratch in one day” by prompting it to browse Facebook Marketplace on its own, schedule deliveries, and more.

💥 Special Effects: Freepik shared six fun prompt ideas for incorporating CGI into your marketing videos.

⚖️ Model Matcher: Economist and New York Times columnist Tyler Cowen breaks down which models are best at which tasks — and what he uses each of them for.

🎲 Chaos Theory: Founder Matt Shumer explains why he thinks we should replace “vibe coding” with “chaos coding” — essentially giving Claude a vague idea and seeing what it comes up with.

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