Salesforce is launching AI Foundry to turn its research into enterprise products. The company is betting on ambient intelligence, simulation environments, and agent-to-agent communications as its 2026 priorities, aiming to align research more closely with what customers actually need.
AI Foundry is a new initiative that allows us to bring the— our foundational research work into applications.
That's designed to tackle the biggest problems. We call these the big bets for research in 2026.
These are mission-critical applications that allows us to really explore new ideas and new concepts that are critical for the customers.
It's tackling things like ambient intelligence, simulation environments, or agent-to-agent communications. We're really going after areas that can have huge potential for growth and transformation.
So it's a big transition because we want to really create a strong alignment between our research work and what are the business needs.
They're big bets inherently because they have some risk in them, and that means that the reward is also greater.
This is a very, very exciting shift we're doing, and these investments allow us to really power our big bets. Good quote.
