Overview
- Slack is piloting the rebuilt assistant with roughly 70,000 Salesforce employees and selected customers, with broad availability targeted by the end of the year.
- The assistant handles natural-language queries to search conversations and files across channels and workspaces and can assemble launch plans or campaign drafts in Canvas.
- Integrations span Google Drive, Salesforce and OneDrive for insights, with meeting coordination through Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar.
- The feature appears as an icon next to the search bar that opens a right-side panel for prompts, and classic Slackbot automations and custom commands remain available.
- Slack says the AI runs inside an AWS virtual private cloud and does not train on workspace data, though prior disclosures about default chat-based training continue to raise privacy questions.