{"id":1008711,"date":"2026-05-19T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008711"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:25:35","slug":"ai-not-engineers-for-coding-salesforce-to-spend-300-million-on-anthropic-tokens-ceo-marc-benioff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/ai-not-engineers-for-coding-salesforce-to-spend-300-million-on-anthropic-tokens-ceo-marc-benioff-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, not engineers for coding: Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens, CEO Marc Benioff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has said that his software firm expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely for coding.<\/p>\n<p>Benioff announced his plans during the All-In podcast on Friday, reportedly describing AI coding agents and Anthropic \u201cawesome\u201d in the same breath. He added that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has said that his software firm expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely for coding. Benioff announced his plans during the All-In podcast on Friday, reportedly describing AI coding agents and Anthropic \u201cawesome\u201d in the same breath. He added that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008712,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008711\/revisions\/1008712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}