Nvidia GTC: Jensen Huang predicts "agents-as-a-service" will replace SaaS

Welcome back, closer. A startup called Okara just launched what it's calling an "AI CMO" — and its demo video hit 6M+ views overnight. Meanwhile, Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia GTC and declared that SaaS is becoming agents-as-a-service. For sales teams, the message is clear: the playbook is changing fast.

Today: Okara's AI CMO and what it means for your pipeline · Manus AI's desktop agent for sales ops · Nvidia GTC's biggest prediction for revenue teams · How to research any account in 60 seconds · 5 AI tools every closer should know this week.

1. Okara launches an "AI CMO" that deploys marketing agents across SEO, content, Reddit, and X: Users enter their company URL and Okara automatically spins up a team of AI agents — including a Reddit Agent, SEO Agent, AI Writer Agent, GEO Agent, and Hacker News Agent — to generate traffic. The launch video went viral with over 6 million views. Try Okara's AI CMO here.

🎯 Sales Impact: If your prospects can now spin up AI-powered marketing in minutes, they'll expect the same speed from their sales vendors. This also means smaller companies will suddenly look like bigger players, your competitive landscape just changed.

2. Manus AI releases "My Computer," a desktop agent that works directly with your local files and apps: Manus can now organize files, build desktop apps, launch local applications, and connect with Gmail and Calendar — all through command-line instructions on your machine. You can even command it from your phone while your computer does the work. Available now on macOS and Windows. Watch the demo.

🎯 Sales Impact: Desktop agents that touch your CRM, calendar, and local files are the next frontier for sales ops. Imagine automated deal room prep, meeting follow-ups that write themselves, and proposals assembled from local templates — all while you're on another call.

3. Nvidia GTC: Jensen Huang predicts "agents-as-a-service" will replace SaaS — and dropped the hardware to make it happen: At GTC 2026, Huang compared OpenClaw — the open-source AI agent framework — to Linux and Kubernetes, calling it "the most popular open-source project in the history of humanity." Nvidia also unveiled NemoClaw, a secure agent runtime, and Vera Rubin, a seven-chip supercomputer platform for agentic AI. Huang ended with a bold prediction: SaaS will slowly become agents-as-a-service. Watch the full analysis.

🎯 Sales Impact: If the CEO of the most valuable company on Earth says SaaS is becoming agents-as-a-service, every sales team selling software needs to rethink their pitch. Your buyer's next question isn't "what does your product do?" — it's "what can your agents do for me automatically?"

The adoption gap is real. A February 2026 Deloitte Digital study of 1,060 B2B buyers and suppliers found that while 45% of suppliers use AI in sales today, only 24% have deployed agentic AI that actually automates workflows. Paul do Forno, managing director at Deloitte Digital, said adoption "is actually lower than we expected, but not surprised given B2B has always been laggards."

The performance gap is widening. According to Salesforce's State of Sales report, 83% of sales teams using AI saw revenue growth — and the 2026 edition, surveying 4,050 sales pros, found that 94% of sales leaders with AI agents say they're essential to growth. Meanwhile, Deloitte's data shows digitally mature B2B suppliers exceeded annual sales growth targets by 110% more than their low-maturity competitors.

What's actually working. The highest-performing teams aren't replacing reps with AI — they're augmenting them. Harvard Business Review's research on AI sales assistants shows the "AI + human" model outperforms both full automation and manual-only approaches. Where AI wins: prospect research, consistent follow-up cadences, lead scoring, and after-hours inbound handling. Where humans still win: complex negotiations, relationship building, and creative deal structuring.

The bottom line. Gartner predicted that 80% of B2B sales interactions will happen digitally and that future is already here. If you're a sales leader who hasn't fundamentally rethought your team's workflow around AI, the tools that Okara, Manus, and Nvidia shipped this week make it clear: your competitors aren't waiting.

Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic's most capable model, launched February 5 — is purpose-built for complex, multi-step analysis. Here's how to use it for account research:

1. Go to claude.ai and select Opus 4.6 as your model

2. Paste this prompt: "I'm an enterprise AE selling [your product category]. Research [Company Name] and give me: (1) their top 3 strategic priorities this year based on earnings calls and press, (2) likely pain points my solution addresses, (3) key decision makers with titles, (4) a custom opening line for my outreach email."

3. Opus will synthesize publicly available data into a structured account brief

4. Follow up with: "Now draft a 3-touch email sequence for the VP of Sales based on what you found."

💡 Pro tip: Opus 4.6 is industry-leading for agentic tasks, tool use, and search. Paste an earnings transcript into the chat and ask Claude to extract every mention of pain points your product solves. This alone replaces 10+ minutes of manual research per account.

🤝 Category-Defining Merger: Clari and Salesloft merged to form the Revenue AI powerhouse, doubled R&D investment, and named Steve Cox as CEO. They also tapped 1Mind as the exclusive AI successor to Drift.

🔬 Anthropic's Massive Study: Anthropic invited 81,000 Claude users to share how they use AI — the largest and most multilingual qualitative study of its kind. If you want to understand where AI is actually being used (and where buyers expect it), this is required reading.

🎮 Nvidia's Wild GTC Week: Beyond the agents-as-a-service prediction, Nvidia unveiled NemoClaw (secure agent runtime), revealed Vera Rubin (seven-chip supercomputer), and called it "the greatest infrastructure buildout in history." ZDNET has a great breakdown.

🚀 Apollo Goes All-In on AI: Apollo.io continues building out its AI sales platform — AI-powered multichannel campaigns, built-in email deliverability guardrails, and automated prospecting. If you're still tab-switching between your sequencer and research tool, take a look.

📊 Salesforce 2026 Report Drops: The 7th edition State of Sales surveyed 4,050 pros and found 94% of sales leaders with AI agents say they're essential to growth. Bookmark this one for your next QBR deck.

🎯 Naoma: AI demo agent that runs live, personalized product walkthroughs for B2B SaaS — 10x cheaper than your presales team. Discovers leads, collects firmographics, and scores fit in real time.

🔍 Apollo.io: The AI sales platform with one of the largest B2B data networks on the planet. Find leads, run multichannel campaigns, and execute deals — all in one place.

📞 1Mind: AI "superhuman" voice agent that handles inbound sales calls and qualifies leads 24/7. Recently named exclusive AI successor to Drift by Clari + Salesloft.

📊 Clari: Now merged with Salesloft, building the first "Predictive Revenue System" — unifying revenue data, workflows, and AI agents to flag at-risk deals before they slip.

✍️ Lindy: iMessage your AI assistant 24/7 to manage email, draft replies in your voice, prep meetings, and record notes. Connects to hundreds of apps — Slack, Gmail, Calendar, CRM.