Kore.ai launches Artemis AI agent platform, takes on Salesforce and ServiceNow

Kore.ai on Wednesday launched what amounts to a ground-up reinvention of its core technology: the Artemis edition of its Agent Platform , a system designed to let enterprises build, govern, and optimize AI agents using AI itself — compressing what has traditionally been months of engineering work into days. The platform arrives at a moment when every major technology vendor — from Microsoft and Salesforce to Google and ServiceNow — is racing to become the default infrastructure for enterprise AI agents. Kore.ai's answer to that crowded field is a bet on neutrality, a proprietary intermediary language for defining agents, and a philosophy that AI, not human developers, should do most of the heavy lifting. "We're trying to change the paradigm about how people design, build, deploy and optimize agentic AI applications," Raj Koneru, the company's founder and CEO, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "The whole theme that we are now coming out with is you do AI wi