I was already doing 50% of the company’s work

The CEO of SalesforceMarc Benioff, made a revelation on Thursday (26): 30 to 50% of the company’s work is already being done by artificial intelligence. The executive’s speech comes after waves of billionaire cuts and investments in the company.

Salesforce is a software giant that provides cloud services. During an interview, Benioff highlighted the importance of technology at work.

Salesforce is betting on AI

The revelation made by Marc Benioff took place during an interview with the Bloomberg. He pointed out that Salesforce is accelerating the use of AI in workload automation and technology is already responsible for 30 to 50% of work.

He defended the company’s position, highlighting the importance of the initiative:

We all need to understand this idea that AI can do things we did before and that we can advance to do a job of higher value.

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, in an interview with Bloomberg

The executive also called the rise of the “digital revolution of labor” and revealed that the company reached a 93% accuracy level in the application of technology. It describes performance as “very good,” but says it is “realistic” and not expect 100%accuracy.

Investment in AI and layoffs

Benioff’s statement comes a month after Salesforce announced the acquisition of Informatica, a cloud data management company for $ 8 billion. THE Digital Look had already reported the case here.

The movement reinforced the Software giant bet on artificial intelligence. And this is not now: since 2023, the company has been investing heavily in technology – which, by the way, has worked.

At the same time it disburses billionaire amounts in favor of AI, the Salesforce promoted mass layoffs to cut costs. In February, they were More than 1,000 dismissed employees.

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Salesforce is not the only

• As the site remembered CNBCSalesforce is not the only one. Overall, technology companies are looking for new forms of cut spending while increasing efficiency, especially with the help of artificial intelligence;
• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has recently admitted that Amazon will follow a similar way: to cut jobs because of the IAS.
• In a memorandum to employees, he explained that some functions will be automated.

THE OD gave the details about the case here.