Salesforce will spend nearly $300 million on Anthropic tokens in 2026
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Salesforce just announced it's spending nearly $300 million on Anthropic tokens in 2026.
CEO Marc Benioff says this move will help build smarter software and coding tools, making work faster and cheaper, but still keeping engineers in the loop.
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Tools like Agentforce (already pulling in $800 million a year) and Slack are getting upgrades from Anthropic's Claude models, part of what Benioff calls a "digital labor revolution."