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Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce to embed CRM in Claude

It's a defensive move to stay embedded in workflows as AI chatbots threaten to replace traditional software interfaces.

• Salesforce and Anthropic unveiled Claudeforce, an expanded partnership that ships Salesforce in Claude, a plugin with 37 prebuilt sales skills letting sellers take governed actions on live Salesforce data directly inside Claude.
• Salesforce is the world's top CRM platform; Anthropic builds the Claude AI models, which recently hit a $65 billion annualized revenue run rate, up sevenfold in a year.
• Salesforce in Claude runs on AIforce, Salesforce's enterprise harness exposing data and workflows via MCP servers, APIs and CLI tools; it's live for pilot customers with open beta planned for September 2026.
• Salesforce expects to spend about $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year and holds an Anthropic stake now valued at roughly $5 billion.
• This is the first time Salesforce has ever attached its 'force' brand suffix to another company's product, underscoring how central the Anthropic relationship has become.
• Salesforce shares jumped about 12% in extended trading after the announcement, which landed alongside fiscal second-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations.
• Rather than compete with AI chat interfaces threatening to bypass traditional software screens, Salesforce is betting its survival on making its data and governance the trusted backend those interfaces run on.