Salesforce reported an 11% revenue increase and lifted guidance, with annualized Agentforce AI product revenue up 240% to over $1.5 billion, sending shares up nearly 23%, their best day since 2020. The quarter, alongside a new Anthropic partnership ('Claudeforce') and a $2.6 billion investment gain from Anthropic, eased the 'SaaSpocalypse' narrative that application-layer software would be displaced by frontier AI vendors. The episode is a concrete data point that app-layer incumbents can monetize AI through existing distribution and partnership rather than being commoditized out.
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