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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I’ll share how Salesforce’s expanded partnership with Google gives businesses the flexibility to choose the right AI models, powering smarter, more efficient operations.
Highlights
00:03 — Salesforce and Google Cloud are expanding their existing partnership by integrating Google’s Gemini AI models into Salesforce Agent Force. The integration not only provides Agentforce users with another model option, further strengthening Salesforce’s position as a vendor, but it also enables customers to choose models adapted to their specific needs.
00:38 — Salesforce’s Agentforce, Data Cloud, and Customer 360 apps will also run on Google Cloud. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said: “Salesforce’s selection of Google Cloud as a major infrastructure provider means enterprise customers can now deploy some of their most critical applications on our highly secure, AI-optimized infrastructure with minimal friction . . . “
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01:26 — This extended partnership is very interesting. Google Cloud has AI agent-building capabilities, particularly with its Vertex AI Agent Builder. Yet here they are, empowering a competitor that arguably has the most talked-about agentic AI platform available and providing that competitor with the infrastructure it needs to excel in the space.
01:52 — Google Cloud is so confident that it’s willing to ensure that competitors thrive on its infrastructure. Also, it indicates a two-pronged strategy. Google has excellent AI infrastructure alongside its AI agent and co-pilot capabilities. It seems that Google is also so confident in these areas that it can, at times, publicly promote one over the other in a significant way.
