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Salesforce employees are confused about why the company is promoting a competitor inside Slack
Salesforce helped promote Claude Tag when it launched. This caused some confusion among employees, as Slack has its own Slackbot and Agentforce platform - which runs on Claude. Claude Tag offers a parallel experience inside the same platform. Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and it holds roughly a 1% stake in Anthropic, so it has financial reasons to promote Claude Tag despite the competitive tension.
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