Salesforce launches AI Foundry to drive system-level enterprise AI innovation

Salesforce AI Research has announced the launch of AI Foundry, a new initiative aimed at accelerating the development of enterprise-grade AI systems, shifting the focus from standalone models to integrated, system-level intelligence.

The move comes as large language models mature and become increasingly commoditised, prompting a shift in innovation towards how AI systems operate in real-world enterprise environments rather than how individual models perform in isolation.

AI Foundry brings together Salesforce’s research teams, strategic customers, and academic partners to develop, test, and validate AI capabilities that can move from research to production more rapidly. The initiative is designed to address the complexities of enterprise AI, including cross-system coordination, contextual understanding, and secure agent interactions.

According to Silvio Savarese, the key challenges in enterprise AI now lie beyond model performance, focusing instead on ensuring reliability, consistency, and scalability across interconnected systems.

AI Foundry will prioritise several strategic ...