Something that I missed in my coverage yesterday is that Salesforce has acquired Fin. Here’s the details:
Fin’s core offering, its AI Agent, resolves complex customer queries end-to-end, across every channel, including live chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, phone, and Slack. The AI Agent is powered by the company’s proprietary AI model, Apex, that is purpose-built for customer support and has demonstrated industry-leading resolution rates that outperform top commercially available frontier models.
Anoop Dawar, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Deepgram had this to say:
“This isn’t a one-off. In a single month we’ve seen Fin acquired, SpaceX pay $60 billion for Cursor, and OpenAI stand up a $10 billion deployment company – three very different bets on the same scarce thing: teams that can make AI agents work reliably in the real world, not just in a demo. That capability has quietly become the most valuable asset in software, because these are probabilistic systems that drift and have to be measured and monitored continuously to stay accurate. And it gets hardest in voice – real-time, unforgiving, no second take – which is exactly where the next phase of this race will be won.”
The deal is scheduled to close during Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027 and Salesforce will not impact Salesforce’s capital return program.
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Salesforce Acquires Fin
Something that I missed in my coverage yesterday is that Salesforce has acquired Fin. Here’s the details:
Fin’s core offering, its AI Agent, resolves complex customer queries end-to-end, across every channel, including live chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, phone, and Slack. The AI Agent is powered by the company’s proprietary AI model, Apex, that is purpose-built for customer support and has demonstrated industry-leading resolution rates that outperform top commercially available frontier models.
Anoop Dawar, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Deepgram had this to say:
“This isn’t a one-off. In a single month we’ve seen Fin acquired, SpaceX pay $60 billion for Cursor, and OpenAI stand up a $10 billion deployment company – three very different bets on the same scarce thing: teams that can make AI agents work reliably in the real world, not just in a demo. That capability has quietly become the most valuable asset in software, because these are probabilistic systems that drift and have to be measured and monitored continuously to stay accurate. And it gets hardest in voice – real-time, unforgiving, no second take – which is exactly where the next phase of this race will be won.”
The deal is scheduled to close during Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027 and Salesforce will not impact Salesforce’s capital return program.
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