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Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic AI tokens

May 18, 2026 · High importance · deployment
Editorial Analysis

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced plans to spend $300 million on Anthropic AI tokens in 2025 to enhance coding automation and productivity. The company is heavily using Anthropic’s coding agents and will not hire additional software engineers due to AI-driven gains.

At a Glance
Date
May 18, 2026
Importance
High 4/5
Category
deployment
Axis of Change
Deployment Expansion
Organizations
Anthropic Salesforce
Models Affected
Claude
Sources
  1. 01 enterpriseai.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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