Dreamforce 2026: Salesforce unveils Koa AI model and Google Cloud partnership
SalesForce can now handle more reasoning inside Agentforce without relying entirely on OpenAI and Anthropic models
Salesforce is reportedly expanding its partnerships with AWS and Google Cloud to extend its data and artificial intelligence capabilities into Google cloud platform through expanded strategic integrations.
The partnership was officially announced today at Dreamforce 2026, aiming to eliminate departmental barriers by bringing technology, valuable customer relationship management, AI agents and workflows into their cloud computing.
According to Salesforce, a number of AWS’s frontier agents starting with the AWS DevOps Agent are being integrated into Slack and the team collaboration platform. The agent AWS DevOps Agent in Slack teams will be capable of troubleshooting infrastructure without users having to leave that platform.
Salesforce seeks to expand its Data 360 Zero Copy integration to AWS Glue-managed Apache Iceberg tables and the Amazon Aurora database to make it easier to ground data in enterprise data.
In this connection, WS Vice President of Data and AI FTM Rahul Pathak said: “These new integrations with Salesforce give customers data access without migration, model choice at the right economics and AI agents where their people already work.”
The unified agent integration reasoning and actions that run on shared infrastructure with Salesforce workloads are brought onto Google through Hyperforce which is an operating model for the company’s software on public cloud platforms. In addition, Salesforce said Hyperforce on Google Cloud is expecting broader customer transitions to occur in the fourth quarter.
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