Marc Benioff Says Microsoft Shut Salesforce Out Of OpenAI — So He Bet On Anthropic Instead, And It Could Pay 'Tens Of Billions'

Salesforce, Inc. CEO Marc Benioff said Microsoft's close relationship with OpenAI effectively shut the cloud software provider out of investing in the ChatGPT maker years ago, pushing him to look elsewhere in the frontier AI market and leading to what could become one of his most lucrative bets: An…