Salesforce Partners with Anthropic on Claudeforce; Shares Jump 13% After Earnings Beat

Salesforce's shares jumped 13% in after-hours trading following its Q2 2025 earnings report, with the beat driven largely by investment gains from its stake in Anthropic. Alongside the results, the company announced Claudeforce, a joint product with Anthropic, while the rest of the business performed in line with expectations.

Confirmed

• Salesforce's Q2 results exceeded expectations, sending the stock up 13% after hours (per @mattslotnick)
• The outperformance was mainly attributable to investment gains from Anthropic rather than other businesses (per @mattslotnick)
• CEO Marc Benioff announced the launch of Claudeforce: Claude runs natively on top of Salesforce, connecting directly and with governance to Salesforce data and workflows via the new AIforce harness and Headless 360 (per @IanAndrewsDC)
• Claudeforce ships with 37 pre-built sales skills at launch, aimed at sales teams (as relayed by @MichaelFNunez)
• Marc Benioff and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will appear together on CNBC (per @Kr00ney)

Why it matters

• Salesforce's deep integration with Anthropic—both investment gains and product-level collaboration—has become a business highlight. Claudeforce marks a native connection between the two platforms at the data and workflow level, and could reshape how AI is used in enterprise sales.

2026-08-27 ~ 2026-08-27 · 5 related posts

• [source] Salesforce and Anthropic partnership: CEOs to appear on CNBC after earnings — Kr00ney · 2026-08-27
• [source] Salesforce Q2 beats EPS on Anthropic gains, 'Claudeforce' launch — matt_slotnick · 2026-08-27
• [source] Claudeforce launches: Claude runs natively on Salesforce with governed data access — IanAndrewsDC · 2026-08-27
• Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce with 37 prebuilt sales skills — MichaelFNunez · 2026-08-27

1 near-duplicate retellings: matt_slotnick