- Salesforce and Anthropic introduced Claudeforce, a plugin that lets Claude users access Salesforce data and use 37 pre-built skills to compose emails, update records and take related sales actions.
- Claudeforce is available to select pilot customers and is scheduled to enter preview next month, with additional skills planned later this year.
- The partnership addresses investor concern that generative-AI tools could displace enterprise software providers; Salesforce shares were down about 22% year to date before rising 12% in extended trading following the announcement and fiscal Q2 results.
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“We're delivering a dynamic interface that thinks, reasons, and acts”
“It's completely exciting. I think that this is the way all enterprise systems are going to run in the future.”
“don't run out of control.”