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Business

Salesforce agrees to buy marketing firm Braze for $5.66B

Salesforce will pay $47.50 a share in cash for Braze, which sends brands’ messages to customers. It says Braze fits its AI agents, and the deal still needs approval from shareholders and regulators.

Salesforce has agreed to buy Braze, a platform that helps consumer brands send personal messages through apps, email and text, for about $5.66 billion in enterprise value. Braze shareholders get $47.50 a share in cash. The deal is expected to close in Salesforce’s fiscal year 2028.

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AI Models

Salesforce built a reasoning model for CRM work

Its strongest results come from Salesforce tests.

Koa is based on Nvidia Nemotron and trained with synthetic business tasks. Salesforce says it makes fewer CRM action errors, but the benchmark and the customer pilots still need outside study.