Speaking at Dreamforce in San Francisco, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed confidence in the AI industry's ability to advance technology safely, criticized media coverage of the issue, acknowledged that some accidents are inevitable, and called for a transparent incident-reporting culture similar to aviation. He also said AI development has entered a third wave and its commercial potential has yet to be fully realized.
At Salesforce Dreamforce in San Francisco, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI safety does not require new legislation, as market mechanisms are sufficient to regulate AI product safety and companies should set their own release pace. He called the idea that innovation and safety are opposed a false dichotomy.
Salesforce launched Koa, its first reasoning model, at Dreamforce 2026. Built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and jointly post-trained by the two companies, Koa focuses on sales, marketing and customer-service tasks, offering an open-weight alternative to closed models in the Agentforce platform to reduce AI spending and safeguard data.