A post shares Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's account from the Sources podcast, published September 22, 2026. Benioff said he wanted to invest in OpenAI, but Sam Altman told him the Microsoft relationship prevented it. He said that pushed “us” toward other model companies, including Anthropic, Mistral in France and Sakana in Japan. On the Anthropic investment, he predicted: “I think we'll make not just billions, but maybe tens of billions of dollars on it.”