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Advancing Enterprise AI Since 2014

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435
AI Patents
407
Research Papers

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2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025

Salesforce AI Research Founded

RelateIQ Acquisition

MetaMind Acquisition

Vision and Language

Early Prompting Techniques (DecaNLP)

Bonobo Acquisition

Einstein Prediction Builder

Einstein Recommendation Builder

Einstein Conversation Insights

Einstein Search

CodeGen LLM & Einstein for Developers

Einstein GPT

ProGen Paper

xGen LLM

ApexGuru

SFR-Embedding

Ensemble RAG

xLAM (Large Action Model)

Einstein for Developers & Flow

xGen-MM (BLIP-3)

Atlas Reasoning Engine

CRMArena-Pro

AI Research Timeline

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2014
Salesforce AI Research Founded
Salesforce has been pioneering in AI since 2014. We use AI to empower customers and employees through next-generation ca...
2015
RelateIQ Acquisition
In 2014, Salesforce acquired RelateIQ, a startup focused on relationship intelligence through data-driven insights. The ...
2016
MetaMind Acquisition
Salesforce acquired MetaMind, an AI startup founded by Richard Socher, marking a pivotal moment in the company’s AI jour...
2017
Vision and Language
In 2017, Salesforce AI Research expanded its focus to vision and language, pioneering multimodal APIs and AI models that...
2018
Early Prompting Techniques (DecaNLP)
In 2018, Salesforce AI Research advanced the field of natural language understanding with the DecaNLP paper, introducing...
2019
Bonobo Acquisition
In 2019, Salesforce acquired Bonobo AI, a company specializing in process mining and analytics. This acquisition enhance...
2019
Einstein Prediction Builder
In 2018, Salesforce launched Prediction Builder, empowering business users to create custom AI predictions directly with...
2020
Einstein Recommendation Builder
In 2020, Salesforce launched Recommendation Builder, enabling admins and developers to create AI-powered recommendations...
2020
Einstein Conversation Insights
In 2020, Salesforce introduced Einstein Conversation Insights, an AI-powered tool that analyzes sales calls and meetings...
2021
Einstein Search
In 2021, Salesforce introduced Einstein Search, bringing AI-powered, personalized, and natural language search to the Sa...
2022
CodeGen LLM & Einstein for Developers
In 2022, Salesforce AI Research released CodeGen, a family of large language models built for code generation. These mod...
2023
Einstein GPT
In 2022, Salesforce began foundational work on Einstein GPT, marking a major leap toward generative AI for CRM. Building...
2023
ProGen Paper
Salesforce AI Research’s 2020 ProGen paper, published in Nature, introduced a language model trained on protein sequence...
2023
xGen LLM
In 2023, Salesforce AI Research introduced the xGen family of large language models, designed for long-context understan...
2023
ApexGuru
In 2023, Salesforce launched ApexGuru, an AI-powered tool that analyzes Apex code to identify performance issues and rec...
2024
SFR-Embedding
In 2023, Salesforce AI Research released SFR-Embedding, a top-performing text embedding model excelling across 56 benchm...
2024
Ensemble RAG
Ensemble RAG is a novel retrieval-augmented generation approach that runs multiple retrievers in parallel and combines t...
2024
xLAM (Large Action Model)
Large Action Models (LAMs) are specialized, compact language models optimized for speed, precision, and real-world execu...
2024
Einstein for Developers & Flow
Agentforce for Developers is an AI-powered assistant in VS Code, powered by CodeGen, to build and deploy agents for Sale...
2025
xGen-MM (BLIP-3)
xGen-MM (BLIP-3) is an open-source multimodal models (text + images) achieving strong results on visual-language tasks. ...
2025
Atlas Reasoning Engine
The Atlas Reasoning Engine is the “brain” behind Agentforce, using RAG and feedback loops to plan, reason, and execute i...
2025
CRMArena-Pro
CRMArena-Pro simulates realistic enterprise environments using synthetic data generation and dynamic interaction scenari...

AI Research Timeline

Tap any milestone to learn more

435
AI Patents
407
Research Papers
2014
Salesforce AI Research Founded
Salesforce has been pioneering in AI since 2014. We use AI to empower customers and employees through next-generation ca...
2015
RelateIQ Acquisition
In 2014, Salesforce acquired RelateIQ, a startup focused on relationship intelligence through data-driven insights. The ...
2016
MetaMind Acquisition
Salesforce acquired MetaMind, an AI startup founded by Richard Socher, marking a pivotal moment in the company’s AI jour...
2017
Vision and Language
In 2017, Salesforce AI Research expanded its focus to vision and language, pioneering multimodal APIs and AI models that...
2018
Early Prompting Techniques (DecaNLP)
In 2018, Salesforce AI Research advanced the field of natural language understanding with the DecaNLP paper, introducing...
2019
Bonobo Acquisition
In 2019, Salesforce acquired Bonobo AI, a company specializing in process mining and analytics. This acquisition enhance...
2019
Einstein Prediction Builder
In 2018, Salesforce launched Prediction Builder, empowering business users to create custom AI predictions directly with...
2020
Einstein Recommendation Builder
In 2020, Salesforce launched Recommendation Builder, enabling admins and developers to create AI-powered recommendations...
2020
Einstein Conversation Insights
In 2020, Salesforce introduced Einstein Conversation Insights, an AI-powered tool that analyzes sales calls and meetings...
2021
Einstein Search
In 2021, Salesforce introduced Einstein Search, bringing AI-powered, personalized, and natural language search to the Sa...
2022
CodeGen LLM & Einstein for Developers
In 2022, Salesforce AI Research released CodeGen, a family of large language models built for code generation. These mod...
2023
Einstein GPT
In 2022, Salesforce began foundational work on Einstein GPT, marking a major leap toward generative AI for CRM. Building...
2023
ProGen Paper
Salesforce AI Research’s 2020 ProGen paper, published in Nature, introduced a language model trained on protein sequence...
2023
xGen LLM
In 2023, Salesforce AI Research introduced the xGen family of large language models, designed for long-context understan...
2023
ApexGuru
In 2023, Salesforce launched ApexGuru, an AI-powered tool that analyzes Apex code to identify performance issues and rec...
2024
SFR-Embedding
In 2023, Salesforce AI Research released SFR-Embedding, a top-performing text embedding model excelling across 56 benchm...
2024
Ensemble RAG
Ensemble RAG is a novel retrieval-augmented generation approach that runs multiple retrievers in parallel and combines t...
2024
xLAM (Large Action Model)
Large Action Models (LAMs) are specialized, compact language models optimized for speed, precision, and real-world execu...
2024
Einstein for Developers & Flow
<b>Agentforce for Developers</b> is an AI-powered assistant in VS Code, powered by CodeGen, to build and deploy agents f...
2025
xGen-MM (BLIP-3)
xGen-MM (BLIP-3) is an open-source multimodal models (text + images) achieving strong results on visual-language tasks. ...
2025
Atlas Reasoning Engine
The Atlas Reasoning Engine is the “brain” behind Agentforce, using RAG and feedback loops to plan, reason, and execute i...
2025
CRMArena-Pro
CRMArena-Pro simulates realistic enterprise environments using synthetic data generation and dynamic interaction scenari...
Silvio Savarese - EVP, Chief Scientist, Salesforce