Salesforce, the US-based cloud-based software company, announced in 2024 that it would stop hiring software engineers in 2025. Even with the hiring freeze, the CEO, Marc Benioff expects the company to spend hundreds of millions on Anthropic tokens this year. With Marc Benioff crediting more than a 30% productivity gain to AI tools like Agentforce, Salesforce could spend around $300 million on Anthropic tokens in 2026, with most of that linked to coding-related work, reports Times of India. The projection underlines that the software company is shifting its focus from expanding engineering teams to increasing investment in AI-powered tools that support coding and other tasks.
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