Salesforce Predicts Billions from Anthropic Bet After Missing Out on OpenAI

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that his company's investment in Anthropic may yield tens of billions of dollars in profit. The decision to invest in Anthropic was made after Salesforce missed out on investing in OpenAI due to its relationship with Microsoft.

The remarks show that the investment has gone beyond a simple equity stake and has led to product collaboration between the two companies.

Salesforce's Slackbot and other new interfaces run based on Anthropic's AI model Claude, which is a key part of their business partnership. Benioff stressed that the relationship between Salesforce and Anthropic has developed beyond a simple financial investment into close business cooperation.