With just over a month until Dreamforce, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff teased the big news slated for the user conference: The company's new offering will be called Salesforce Einstein.

While details about the product -- or if it even is a product or just a suite-wide upgrade -- are scarce, it doesn't take someone of Einstein's ilk to connect the offering's name with the recent spate of AI and machine learning acquisitions Salesforce has made.

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