Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Salesforce and Anthropic have expanded their partnership with a new offering called Claudeforce. This brings Salesforce data and workflows directly into Anthropic's Claude, starting with a plugin that features 37 prebuilt sales skills. The plugin, called Salesforce in Claude, allows users to query, update, and act on live CRM data without having to open Salesforce itself.

The plugin is available to select pilot customers and will have an open beta in September. Additional skills for other business functions are set to launch in the third quarter. According to Salesforce's chair and CEO, Marc Benioff, the partnership brings together the world's number one AI and number one CRM, allowing users to build custom apps dynamically and answer enterprise questions.

The development is part of a larger trend of integrating AI into enterprise software. It also follows the recent rollout of a built-in browser in Anthropic's Claude desktop app, which allows the AI to surf the web directly.

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