Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, a joint AI sales plugin that embeds Salesforce customer data and workflows into Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, offering 37 prebuilt sales skills and limited pilot access ahead of a September open beta. The integration relies on Salesforce’s AIforce framework to connect business data to AI agents, extends to Slack where Claude becomes the default model, and is available in Salesforce’s Agentforce platform via Amazon Bedrock while maintaining security controls. Both firms are strategic customers of each other, and Salesforce’s stock jumped 12% after strong quarterly results, higher revenue guidance, rapid AI product growth, and a substantial investment and planned token spending commitment to Anthropic.
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