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Salesforce $CRM -0.85% CEO Marc Benioff said on the All-In podcast that his company is on track to spend $300 million on tokens from Anthropic this year, with coding as the primary use case.
"These coding agents are awesome. Anthropic is awesome," Benioff said on the podcast, published Friday. "I am going to probably use $300 million of Anthropic this year at Salesforce. Coding. Everything's going to be cheaper to make."
Enterprise customers are billed by AI companies according to how many tokens their usage generates — tokens being the discrete text units that a large language model reads and produces when completing a task.
Across service, support, distribution, and marketing, Benioff told the podcast that the efficiency improvements driven by AI agents have reached levels he described as "unprecedented." For engineering specifically, he said the pace of product iteration has accelerated sharply, and that he can now ship and sell software in parallel — something he described as impossible before AI agents.
