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Benioff claims Agentforce doubled Google's AI accuracy in a head-to-head benchmark
“In a head-to-head benchmark of Salesforce's agent force against Google's AI, we two X them on accuracy”
Benioff calls Microsoft Copilot a universal failure and a complete disaster
“I think in the last few years, what we've kind of heard, and you know, some of it has come from OpenAI, but especially from Microsoft, that we're in this co-pilot world, and these co-pilots have universally failed. The level of accuracy, the spillage of inform…”
Benioff predicts China and Taiwan will reconcile
“I, I've said this for years. I don't agree with Neil Ferguson on that point. I think that this is a nonsense issue. I think China and Taiwan will reconcile.”
Agentforce resolves over 90% of Kaiser Permanente's patient inquiries
“They've got twenty million patients. They have a super complex data set. They have all of the data. From Epic, they are the largest Epic customer in the world, and more than 90% of all patient inquiries, and scheduling requests, and schedule my doctor, schedul…”
Benioff: Chinese AI models are as competitive as US models
“I think that the Chinese models are as competitive as these U S models, and they've learned to make these models without having the highest end chips.”
Benioff: Top 10 enterprise software companies trade at two times sales
“I looked at the top 10 major enterprise software companies. They all had great quarters. And they're all trading in two times sales.”
Benioff: A startup will emerge to route queries between large and small LLMs
“I think there's going to be a hot new company that's going to come along and say this, I'm going to sit between you Ananthropic and open AI, and I'm going to make sure that they, oh, you only need their tokens when you actually need them.”
Benioff calls AI agents the greatest opportunity in enterprise software history
“This is the greatest opportunity in the history of enterprise software, and it must be executed with absolute acuity and excellence, and that is what I think we all need to do.”
Benioff: Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has sold 200 planes in China
“Kelly selling planes. He's already sold 200.”
Benioff: Salesforce would not exist without Tony Robbins
“Hey, if it wasn't for Tony Robbins, I don't think there would be a Salesforce, so there you go.”
Benioff: Salesforce will reach over $46B revenue and $16B cash flow this year
“Look, we'll do over forty six billion this year, more than sixteen billion in cash flow.”
Benioff: Salesforce will probably spend $300M on Anthropic in 2026
“Like, I am gonna probably use three hundred million dollars of Anthropic this year at Salesforce coding.”
Benioff: Private market valuations are fantasy land without actual buyers
“Your valuation is fantasy land until somebody is actually going to pay you.”
Benioff: Multi-sensory models represent the next major wave of AI
“So I would say that multi-sensory models are the next big wave for AI”
Marc Benioff: Enterprise software is at the greatest moment in its history
“We're at the precipice of the greatest moment in the history of enterprise software and of cloud computing.”
Benioff grew a new Achilles tendon using a PF-IV blood plasma procedure
“So he did the whole thing, and then boom, like, I'm like a salamander. They grew me a new Achilles right in place. So that thing that you just heard, that shit is real.”
Salesforce's Einstein AI processes over one trillion transactions per week
“It's doing trillion transactions, trillion and a half transactions a week, predictive generative.”
Salesforce Atlas AI solves Disney employee queries with over 90% accuracy
“Atlas delivers for Disney, for their cast members, which are their employees, through extremely complex, ah, problems that it's solving for them, more than 90% accuracy and almost no hallucinations. And in some cases, 95% accuracy and almost no hallucinations.”
Salesforce expects 1,000 Agentforce customers by the end of September 2024
“And by the end of this month, we'll have more than a thousand customers on our Agent Force platform.”
Salesforce has focused all 75,000 employees entirely on Agentforce
“This is all I'm doing. Just try to take our company, you know, we have a, Great company, thirty-eight billion revenue, 75,000 employees, hundreds of thousands of customers, and one focus agent force.”
Benioff: Tesla is sole foreign automaker in China without local partner
“Elon has Tesla in China. No partnership. He's the only one.”
Benioff: OpenAI, Anthropic, and every AI company standardized on Slack
“And you know, that open AI and Anthropik and every AI company is standardized on Slack.”
Marc Benioff states he is neither a Democrat nor a Republican
“I'm not a Democrat or Republican. I am an American.”
Benioff: Salesforce operates in China exclusively through Alibaba partnership
“We don't have any offices or employees in China, we never have. The only time we end up with any residue in China is when we buy a company, and they have a presence over there, and then we have to divest from it. We have an exclusive partnership with Alibaba, …”