Benioff Calls the SaaSpocalypse “Crazy Nonsense”
- On Tuesday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed attendees at the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, noting that only 5% to 10% of AI's economic value is currently utilized.
- Salesforce expanded its partnership with Anthropic last month to integrate the Claude AI model, addressing investor anxiety about whether AI would replace traditional software leaders like Salesforce.
- Within Salesforce, 7,000 workers are using tools integrated with Claude, while Agentforce utilizes a synthetic dataset drawn from 27 years of CRM deployments.
- Benioff warned that companies must be held responsible for their technology, cautioning against repeating the negative societal impacts he observed with social media platforms.
- Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang told the audience that "market forces" will regulate AI safety, contrasting with Amodei's recent call to slow development to allow safety measures to catch up.
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Benioff calls the SaaSpocalypse “crazy nonsense”
Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a “SaaSpocalypse”. “We’ve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especially over the last six months,” he said on Tuesday, opening the Dreamforce 2026 keynote in San Francisco. “Hasn’t it been wild?” he asked the audience. The SaaSpocalypse, he said, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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