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Benioff: Microsoft poorly repackaged OpenAI's technology into Copilot without real integration
“What Microsoft basically did was they're, you're exactly right what you said, they just repackaged OpenAI's product and didn't really integrate it very well and didn't really think from the ground up what it was going to be in its best situation to offer value…”
Benioff: Microsoft will likely fast-follow Salesforce into agentic AI
“Maybe Microsoft will pivot like they usually do and fast follow us, you know, into this new agentic world because I think that's really where all the action is going to be.”
Benioff: Prompt engineering was invented at Salesforce
“Even prompt engineering was invented at Salesforce, which we're very proud of.”
Benioff: Musk is unprecedentedly running multiple companies and the US government
“He's a great guy. He's doing incredible things. He's brilliant. He's running like 2000 companies and the US government all at the same time. So, you know, it's like, we've never seen anybody like this in my, in our careers, right? It's just like, this person c…”
Benioff: Enterprise software is shifting from information management to human labor
“We are building software that just isn't helping companies manage and share information, which is kind of what we've been doing for the last three or four decades, but we're really going to provide software that is really a very much an equivalent of labor.”
Benioff: Agentforce costs customers between $0.50 and $2.00 per conversation
“And so for our customers who are now using our agent platform, they're paying between, call it, 50 cents per conversation to two dollars per conversation, depending on the volume of conversations that they're doing”
Benioff: AI agents will sit atop existing enterprise software stacks, not replace them
“So again, we have the disk drives, the operating systems, the databases, the security and sharing model, and we have the apps. And then we have the agentic layer on top of all that. You put a big bow around it and that's how it should work.”
Benioff: Klarna remains a major Salesforce customer and still uses Slack
“There are big customer of ours, actually, and they use Slack.”
Benioff: Consumer AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini are commodity products
“They're kind of commodities at this point. You know, Google has Gemini, there's ChatGPT, there's u.com, there's Perplexity, there's Copilot, there's all these things, you know, they're just on your phone, you're just talking to the, basically the same data set…”
Benioff: Time Magazine aims for political neutrality and balanced coverage
“There was even a time when the owner, really the founder, you know, had a very specific political ideology that he was expressing through that. I don't think that that's appropriate based on the current world. You know, we're trying to create a neutral, you kn…”
Benioff: Salesforce planned to transform Twitter into an interactive application platform
“We were really going to build something that was more of an application development and deployment capability, where you really had this kind of same Twitter feeds, but you'd kind of have hypercards in those frames, not just photos.”
Benioff: Salesforce abandoned Twitter acquisition because public investors opposed it
“Because I did not end up going in that direction, mostly because my investors, I run a public company, did not want me to go into this crazy world”
Benioff: Salesforce has deployed Agentforce AI to 135,000 customer implementations
“In the past several weeks, as we've been rolling this out to our customers and we have put this in a 135,000 Salesforce implementations. Customers just need to turn it on.”
Benioff: AI cannot run solely on LLMs without grounding in metadata
“As we get into this next level of AI, it needs the data to be intelligent. It can't just run off of a large language model, which is an intelligence model. It has to be what we call grounded or connected into the customer data itself. And not just the customer…”
Benioff: Consumer phone AI will eventually interconnect with corporate brand agents
“Right now, you might just be talking directly to us because that's the most trusted path, and we're in a new world where, yes, your technology that you're using on your phone is going to be smarter, and also the technology of these companies is going to be sma…”