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Projected Annual AI Token Spend
Estimated annual expenditure on Anthropic AI tokens for Salesforce productivity tools.
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Marc Benioff said Salesforce will spend $300M on Anthropic tokens
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said AI coding agents have brought "unprecedented" levels of productivity for his company. Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had high praise for AI coding agents and Anthropic. The CEO said agents have allowed him to be more efficient and faster with product iteration. He said Salesforce will also be introducing tech that makes coding easier inside Slack. Marc Benioff is all in on the AI coding agent craze and is willing to spend big on it for his company. In an episode of the All-In podcast published on Friday, the Salesforce CEO said his company is projected to spend $300 million on tokens from Anthropic. Tokens are bits of information, like parts of a word, that a user types and a model processes. AI companies track token usage to bill users and large organizations. Salesforce president and CMO Ariel Kelman talks AI agents for marketing "These coding agents are awesome. Anthropic is awesome," he said. "I am going to probably use $300 million of Anthropic (tokens) this year at Salesforce. Coding. Everything's going to be cheaper to make."Benioff said in the podcast that AI agents have brought "unprecedented" levels of efficiency at his company, pointing to areas such as service, support, distribution, and marketing. Last August, the CEO announced that AI agents enabled Salesforce to cut its support staff from 9,000 to 5,000.With the productivity boosts he's seen with coding agents, Benioff revealed in the podcast that Salesforce is also working on ways to make coding easier in Slack, the productivity platform Salesforce has owned since 2021."We're even working on technology inside Slack to make it easier for everybody to code," he said. "You're going to see some cool stuff with Slack and code I'm not ready to talk about yet. But there's no question that we are in a new moment in coding."Benioff said that while he projects a $300 million spend on Anthropic this year, he doesn't believe every token a company employee use has to go to a frontier model like Anthropic's Claude.The CEO called for an "intermediary layer" in the future that could determine which token inputs should go to Anthropic and which ones may be suitable for smaller models. Read next Lloyd Lee You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Salesforce Anthropic
Anthropic plans to buy this AI start-up for over $300M
Some of the payment may also be made using Anthropic shares May 13, 2026 07:46 pm What's the storyAI start-up Anthropic is said to be in advanced talks to buy Stainless, a company that creates software for easier access to artificial intelligence (AI) models. The deal, which is still in the works and subject to change, could see Anthropic paying over $300 million for the acquisition. Some of the payment may also be made using Anthropic shares, The Information reported. Industry impact Stainless's software is used by tech giants Founded in early 2022 by Alex Rattray, Stainless has developed software that simplifies access and use of AI models for developers. Its client base includes big names like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. If the deal goes through, Anthropic would gain ownership of a key tool used by developers to access AI models from these tech giants. Tool demand Surge in demand for Stainless's tools The demand for Stainless's tools has surged along with the emergence of AI agents like Claude Code and OpenCode. OpenAI had previously developed its own software development kit but later switched to using Stainless's tools due to maintenance challenges and resource constraints. Notably, Stainless has also developed software associated with Model Context Protocol (MCP), a framework introduced by Anthropic in November 2024. Funding talks Anthropic also plans to raise $30B Along with the potential acquisition, Bloomberg reported today that Anthropic is also in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in new funding. The upcoming round could value the company at more than $900 billion. This would be more than double Anthropic's reported valuation of $380 billion from its February funding round.
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Anthropic Eyes $300M Stainless Acquisition Amid Enterprise AI Expansion
Anthropic is reportedly in advanced discussions to acquire developer tools startup Stainless in a deal valued at more than $300 million, according to a report from The Information. The potential ...
