Slackbot, the assistant in the Slack team communication platform, becomes AI improvements and integration with other AI chatbots to become more agentic, Slack said Monday at a presentation at Dreamforce, a technology conference in San Francisco.
Slackbot works as a simple assistant, sending people reminders, notifications, or updates about their colleagues. It is not conversational like ChatGPT. With these AI enhancements, Slackbot will soon become more like an AI chatbot, capable of doing things on behalf of a human.
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Enterprise users will soon be able to communicate with Slackbot, asking it to help with projects or analyze documents. Slack will also integrate with Google Drive, One Drive and Salesforce. OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and others are also moving their agents to Slack. For example, you can ask @Claude to search the web or crawl your workspace to find new information.
At the moment, the AI ​​version of Slackbot is in beta testing and is limited to 70,000 users. However, it will be available to all users in January 2026. Slack will expand this feature later this year. Companies can also disable Slackbot.
A Slack spokesperson advised reporters to read the blog post.
Application AI has become a common trend since the release of ChatGPT. Applications like Duolingo, Canvas, Fot, shopand others have added artificial intelligence features to make the user experience easier and attract investor money. Slack's biggest competitor in this space, Microsoft Teams, was recently integrated more artificial intelligence features.
