Salesforce Reveals 'Claudeforce' in Major New Anthropic AI Deal as CEO Marc Benioff Pushes Back Against SaaSpocalypse
- Salesforce and Anthropic announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, making Claude the default model across Salesforce agent products and Slack to deliver a dynamic interface that thinks, reasons, and acts.
- Formalizing a deep relationship, Salesforce expects to spend around $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, building on a stake valued at about $5 billion to bring frontier intelligence into enterprise systems.
- Salesforce is shipping a plugin offering 37 pre-built sales skills, allowing agents to reason over live revenue context and automate pipeline updates using information stored within the CRM.
- Claude operates through Amazon Bedrock within Salesforce's Trust Boundary, while Slackbot, the Claude Tag, and Slack Code receive the integration to bridge team conversation with autonomous action.
- Spending on AI platforms surged 435% from a year ago, with CEO Marc Benioff dismissing the Saaspocalypse narrative as "such nonsense" as nine of the 10 leading artificial intelligence companies use Salesforce and Slack.
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technewstube.comSalesforce reveals 'Claudeforce' in major new Anthropic AI deal as CEO Marc Benioff pushes back against SaaSpocalypse
Salesforce and Anthropic reveal ClaudeforceGreater expansion of Claude into Salesforce's services, including a new plugin offering 37 pre-built sales skillsSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff says "Saaspocalypse" is "such nonsense"Salesforce has extended its partnership with Anthropic to build Claude directly into the former's services.Claudeforce will give Claude direct access into customer data and other information stored in Salesforce, allowing the …
Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude
Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforce’s agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as a plugin. It formalises a relationship that already runs deep enough that Salesforce expects to spend around $300mn on Anthropic tokens this year, and it comes on top of a […] This story continues at The Next Web
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