\n “We’re not interested in destroying anyone,” Amodei said on CNBC earlier this week. “We think of this as a very positive sum thing, right?”
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\n With Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff <\/a>seated beside him, Amodei sought to put to rest Wall Street’s belief that Anthropic aims to conquer all things SaaS. After all, it was an Anthropic announcement in late January about plugins for Claude Cowork<\/a>, not the four horsemen, that signaled the beginning of what became known as the Saaspocalypse. In one week, roughly $1 trillion in value was wiped out in the software sector.
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\n Since then, some software companies, including Salesforce, have recovered ground. In fact, Thursday was the second-best day ever for Salesforce shares, trailing only a COVID-19 pandemic era boom, CNBC reported<\/a>.
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\n “Our seats were supposed to decline. Instead, Agentforce Sales, Services, Slack all saw year-over-year growth,” Benioff said. “We were told customers would abandon us. But attrition is near its lowest level ever.”
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\n Amodei said Anthropic has always wanted to create value for its customers. He said both companies are “big users” of each other’s services.
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\n “This combination is a way to gain something that’s, it’s one plus one equals three, something that’s bigger than the sum of its parts,” he said. “And I think that’s the right way to think about things.”
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