Marc Benioff says ‘excessive’ AI spending is a ‘race to the bottom,’ and he’d rather Salesforce use other companies’ tech

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• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in an interview that tech companies’ investments in AI are excessive and that he would leverage their investments to help his own customers.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff questioned Big Tech’s massive artificial intelligence spending, and said his company is better off using the tech that rival companies have poured billions of dollars into.