The Hallway Track

Dreamforce 2026

enterprise agents agentforce crm data-cloud

Dates
2026-09-15 → 2026-09-17
Location
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Ecosystem
enterprise
Importance
8/10

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Your digital workforce has a roster

Salesforce · Sep 19, 2026

Salesforce launched out-of-the-box Agentforce agents (Hunter, Piper, Casey, Paige, Finn) deployable by any business user.

“Building with a probabilistic system is a new muscle, is a new skill that we all have to learn.”
Dreamforce Main Keynote 2026

Salesforce · Sep 15, 2026

Salesforce introduces AI Force, integrating leading AI models with its CRM.

“Say hello to AI Force, the world's leading AI models connected to the world's number one AI CRM.”
[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot

Elon Musk · Latent Space Blog · Aug 13, 2026

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.6, a 1.5T model targeting knowledge work agents

“builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work”
[AINews] Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Omni (NanoBanana for Video), Spark (background agents), and Antigravity 2.0

Latent Space Blog · May 20, 2026

Google I/O 2026 repositioned Gemini as consumer AI surface and developer agent platform with three major launches

“Google used I/O to reposition Gemini as both a consumer AI surface and a developer/agent platform, with three core technical announcements: Gemini 3.5 Flash for fast agentic/coding workloads, Gemini Omni for multimodal generation/editing starting with video, and a broader Antigravity agent stack spanning desktop/CLI”
Quoting John Gruber

Simon Willison · Sep 25, 2026

Meta's Muse is the first consumer-accessible agentic AI with persistent Linux VMs per user

“It's the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, and Meta has truly done an amazing job with that. But it's a genuinely open question whether consumers have any understanding what this means.”
Futures Issue 5: Agentic Enterprise Futures

Salesforce · Salesforce News · Sep 17, 2026

Salesforce is redefining what enterprise AI means for businesses.

“Salesforce is committed to driving AI adoption in every aspect of our business.”
Marc Benioff & Sam Altman | Dreamforce 2026

Sam Altman · Salesforce · Sep 16, 2026

AI models have improved dramatically and are now transforming enterprises.

“These models are in some ways going to become more capable smarter than people.”
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Sep 01, 2026

Claude Fable 5.1 launches on AWS Bedrock with mandatory 30-day data retention as a Covered Model

How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Jul 28, 2026

MCP's 2026-07-28 spec makes the protocol stateless, enabling standard HTTP horizontal scaling for enterprise agents

“remote MCP servers effectively become standard HTTPS endpoints, which scale cleanly with enterprise workloads”
Introducing OpenAI Presence

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Jul 22, 2026

OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise platform for trusted voice and chat AI agents.

“a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows”
The New Physics of Business — Garry Tan, Y Combinator

AI Engineer · Jul 17, 2026

YC's Garry Tan claims 400x personal coding productivity gain with AI agents.

“One person does what used to take a thousand people. And I don't mean that as a metaphor. I mean that mechanically this year, the people in this room will do this.”
The Agent for Your Agent.

LangChain · Jun 23, 2026

LangChain launched Engine, an agent that autonomously investigates traces and drafts PRs to improve other agents.

“We're working towards a future where agents improve themselves.”
GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · Jun 22, 2026

Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 marks a step-change for open agentic models, rivaling top labs.

“minor version numbers can have AI models crossing meaningful user experience thresholds”
OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Jun 11, 2026

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with persistent cloud environments for long-running AI agents.

Satya Nadella: Why Humans Still Create Value

Satya Nadella · No Priors · Jun 08, 2026

AI lets enterprises finally capture human capital and tacit knowledge, but humans stay valuable by finding gaps.

“Every company is going to have the human capital that is still going to be super valuable because humans and their ability to find the gaps that exist at all times is going to be the way we all will create value”
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · May 28, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS

“Opus 4.8 can hold a plan across stages, better track what it has done and what remains, and adjust course when something breaks rather than surfacing an error and stopping.”
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

Simon Willison · May 27, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI shifted enterprise pricing to API usage, signaling true product-market fit.

“I had assumed that companies making extensive use of agents were getting similar discounts. It turns out I could not have been more wrong about that.”