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Agentforce Demo Day: Building the Digital Workforce
In this Agentforce Demo Day broadcast from Salesforce HQ in San Francisco, host Leah McGowen-Hare sits down with builders from Indeed, LIV Golf, and SharkNinja, plus Salesforce product leader Nathan Price, to show how they build, test, deploy, and observe AI agents with Agentforce. The episode centers on Agent Script — a newly open-sourced scripting language that blends deterministic logic with the reasoning of large language models — and Headless 360, an open, extensible platform for the full agent development lifecycle. Through live demos, the guests reveal real metrics, best practices like playbooks and human-in-the-loop logging, and the shift toward self-healing agents built with coding tools.
Nous Research
Nous Research is an open-source AI lab founded in 2023 that builds world-class open-weight language models - most notably its Hermes family - and decentralized infrastructure for training them. Its Psyche network coordinates heterogeneous GPUs across the internet via the Solana blockchain, offering a community-driven, transparent alternative to closed labs like OpenAI. Backed by Paradigm and others, the company positions open, unrestricted models as a counterweight to centralized AI.
Deep Cogito
Deep Cogito is a San Francisco AI research company building open-source large language models with hybrid reasoning - the same model can answer instantly or stop to reason before responding. Founded in 2024 by former Google engineer Drishan Arora, the company trains its Cogito models with a method called Iterated Distillation and Amplification (IDA), which lets a model improve by learning from its own reasoning rather than from human labels. Its stated goal is general superintelligence, and its flagship 671B open model competes with the strongest open systems from DeepSeek and Meta.