Salesforce will spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens in 2026, CEO Marc Benioff disclosed on the All-In podcast Friday, according to livemint.com. The outlay is earmarked almost entirely for AI-driven coding across the enterprise-software giant.
Benioff told host Jason Calacanis that the company is replacing human engineers with AI coding agents powered by Anthropic’s Claude models, livemint.com reported. The tokens—units of text processed by large language models—will be consumed as Salesforce automates software development, integration and testing workflows. Executives said the switch is already under way and will ramp through the year.
The commitment dwarfs the $100 million Anthropic token purchase Google Cloud announced in March and matches the annual AI-infrastructure budget of several Fortune 500 firms, per public filings. For Salesforce, the move tightens its partnership with Anthropic after last year’s joint Agentforce launch, while signaling to rivals like Microsoft-backed GitHub Copilot that AI-generated code is moving from pilot to production at scale.
Investors will watch Salesforce’s next earnings call on 27 August for metrics on engineering headcount and cost savings tied to the initiative, according to company guidance cited by livemint.com. The firm also plans to showcase AI-coded product updates at Dreamforce in September, where adoption by enterprise customers will be the next milestone to track.