Why would they not be able to compete with salesforce? This isn't some tiny startup. This is one of the most deep pocketed companies in the world. Anthropic has announced they are about to spend 5 salesforces worth of money on cloud expenditures in the next couple years. They are projected to be valued at about 10 salesforces after IPO.
replyImagine how much money they'd raise if they just said one day "we are going after salesforce bottom line now." It would be like chumming the water.
That scales to 1-2 ideas. It does not scale to "we want to run EVERY company with AI". They'd either need to scale out to every single sector at the same time, or they will lose their competitive advantage as the competition makes their own AI (it's not a secret how it works, at this point it's more about investment).
replySelling AI to everyone does scale though!
Salesforce is a part owner in Anthropic, they are not separate entities who would compete.
reply> Because creating a successful company takes a lot more than writing code.
replyAs many in the industry say now - writing code was never the hard part