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Salesforce unveils enterprise AI model Koa; Bash outperforms specialized tools for agents

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Salesforce has developed an enterprise language model called Koa, built upon Nemotron-3-Super-120B and enhanced with reinforcement learning. This model is designed for agentic tool use, particularly in customer relationship management, and shows improved performance over its base model and a proprietary baseline on relevant benchmarks. Separately, a study comparing tool interfaces for enterprise agents found that using Bash alone often outperforms specialized tools and even programmatic tool calling, especially in terms of efficiency and cost, though programmatic tool calling offers a secure alternative for specific enterprise needs. AI

IMPACT New research explores specialized enterprise AI models and efficient tool integration for agents, potentially improving business process automation.

RANK_REASON Two arXiv papers detailing new AI models and tool interface studies.

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Salesforce unveils enterprise AI model Koa; Bash outperforms specialized tools for agents

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zixiang Chen, Sufeng Niu, Yingchi Liu, Wenting Zhao, Akshara Prabhakar, Shubham Mehrotra, Bin Bi, Zhujun Lan, Katherine Tan, Mohammad Ramezanali, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Monojit Banerjee, Jielin Qiu, Shiva Kumar Pentyala, Zhepeng Cen, Anupam Tripathi, … ·

    Salesforce Koa: An Enterprise Language Model for Agentic Tool Use

    arXiv:2609.15066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Salesforce Koa, an enterprise language model built by post-training the open-weight Nemotron-3-Super-120B foundation model with reinforcement learning using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). Salesforce Koa is t…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hazel Mak, Susheel Suresh, Sahil Bhatnagar, Barry Wang, Chhaya Methani, Alejandro Gutierrez Munoz ·

    Is Bash All You Need? An Empirical Study of Tool Interfaces for Enterprise Digital Worker Agents

    arXiv:2609.11999v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this study, we examine whether a general shell can outperform specialized tools on enterprise tasks. Shell-based agents have shown strong results in coding, but enterprise work also involves moving between applications and serv…

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