Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff discusses Salesforce's model-neutral approach and its integration of various leading foundation models into Slack and the broader Salesforce ecosystem.
“If you are your Slack user, you need to see the Slack bot that we introduced here, which is built on Anthropic. It's also amazing. So we use open AI. We use Anthropic. We use Gemini. I just did an interview with Sundar, you know, you can see it on YouTube. We XAI love Elon. We love them all.”
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