Marc Benioff downplays software apocalypse fears: 'It may be eaten by the SaaS-quatch'

Marc Benioff isn't buying into the software apocalypse. Speaking on the company's Q4 earnings call on Wednesday, the Salesforce CEO downplayed fears that AI would wipe out software-as-a-service companies."If there is a 'SaaSpocalypse', it may be eaten by the 'SaaS-quatch' because there are a lot of companies using a lot of SaaS because it just got better with agents," Benioff said on the call. Fears of a SaaS AI wipeout have risen in recent weeks after Anthropic rolled out new agentic AI tools, hitting soft ...