Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs join Salesforce's AI push at Dreamforce
Salesforce unveiled new AI products and partnerships with major model makers at its annual San Francisco conference.
What to know
- Salesforce launched Koa, a CRM-focused reasoning model built with Nvidia, trained on synthetic data from 30 years of internal deployment to protect customer data.
- Claudeforce extends Anthropic's Claude AI to Salesforce's sales platform with 37 prebuilt skills, reflecting growing partnership momentum.
- Benioff confirmed Salesforce balances partnerships across Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI, citing past Microsoft-OpenAI exclusivity as reason for pivot to Anthropic.
Marc Benioff Salesforce CEO
Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO
Sam Altman OpenAI CEO
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Salesforce launches AI products at Dreamforce with Nvidia, Anthropic partnerships
Salesforce unveiled Koa, a reasoning model built with Nvidia's Nemotron platform, and expanded Claude integration through Claudeforce within its new AIforce interface. The products were announced at Dreamforce in San Francisco, with CEOs from Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI on stage alongside Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
“Your data is your data, it does not go in the models. You are not training any other model when you are using our products.”
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Benioff explains Anthropic partnership as serendipitous, notes past Microsoft-OpenAI conflict — In remarks following his keynote, Benioff said Salesforce's deepening relationship with Anthropic came through industry dynamics rather than deliberate strategy. He disclosed that Salesforce had wanted to invest in OpenAI previously but could not due to Microsoft's major investment in the company.