September 6, 2024: Salesforce Unveils Efficient AI Large Action Models - Salesforce released its open-source xLAM family, dubbed large action models, optimized for function calling, significantly reducing size and costs compared to larger AI models. The efficient xLAM-1B model, outperforming giants like GPT-3.5, can run on mobile devices and handle automated tasks. The proprietary xGen-Sales model enhances Salesforces Agentforce platform, streamlining sales tasks with high precision. With xLAMs open-source availability on Hugging Face, Salesforce aims to simplify AI agent creation while cutting costs and boosting performance.