So that pushed us, not because we were so smart, to Anthropic, to Mistral in France, to Sakana in Japan, to Coher in Canada. Like to many other model companies because we felt like, whoa, we can't go here. We're going to have to go everywhere else. And so we ended up with Anthropic, which will be a great investment.

Marc Benioff

Sources with Alex Heath


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