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Cerence AI Expands Beyond the Vehicle to New Areas of the Automotive Ecosystem with Launch of AI Agents
SUMMARY AND KEY POINTS: Cerence AI introduces new conversational AI agents for dealerships and OEMs, growing its portfolio of agentic, domain-specific solutions and expanding to new areas beyond the in-vehicle experience.The dealer assist agent empowers automotive dealerships with intelligent sales and service automation, advancing Cerence’s strategy to deliver agentic AI solutions to extended automotive markets.The ownership companion agent enables OEMs to deliver an in-car AI service companion
About this update from Cerence Inc.
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