Slack is ready to ride AI wave: CEO Lidiane Jones
Artificial Intelligence is transforming Slack, the widely used workplace messaging platform, its CEO said just nine months after taking on one of the most high-profile jobs in Silicon Valley.
Lidiane Jones was handed the reins to Slack after the departure of its cofounder and CEO Stewart Butterfield who exited two years after his company's acquisition by Salesforce, the San Francisco-based enterprise software giant.
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Jones took the job in January, only a few weeks after the launch of ChatGPT made the world aware of the superpowers of AI, and Slack has moved quickly to not fall behind, especially against its archrival Microsoft.
«It's amazing what has happened to the world,» Jones said of this AI moment that has captured the imagination of Silicon Valley and the world.
«We've launched more features in the last nine months than in the several years before.»
Brazilian-born and living in the Boston area, Jones was in San Francisco for «Dreamforce», Salesforce's big annual event to plug its new products and AI was on everyone's mind.
Many believe that tools such as Slack are first in line to be profoundly transformed by generative AI, which can
