Dario Amodei says Anthropic is ‘not interested in destroying anyone’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the AI startup wants to add value for its customers.

WEF Claude is not a conqueror, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.

Earlier this year, Anthropic's advancements led to a sell-off in traditional software companies.

Amodei said the AI startup is "not interested in destroying anyone." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Claude comes in peace.

"We're not interested in destroying anyone," Amodei said on CNBC earlier this week.

"We think of this as a very positive sum thing, right?" With Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff seated beside him, Amodei sought to put to rest Wall Street's belief that Anthropic aims to conquer all things SaaS.

After all, it was an Anthropic announcement in late January about plugins for Claude Cowork , not the four horsemen, that signaled the beginning of what became known as the Saaspocalypse.

In one week, roughly $1 trillion in value was wiped out in the software sector.

Since then, some software companies, including Salesforce, have recovered ground.

In fact, Thursday was the second-best day ever for Salesforce shares, trailing only a COVID-19 pandemic era boom, CNBC reported .

Benioff, who for months has dismissed concerns about a SaaSpocalypse, took an early victory lap during Salesforce's second-quarter earnings call .

Before the call, Salesforce announced an expanded partnership with Anthropic, which they dubbed "Claudeforce" "Our seats were supposed to decline.

Instead, Agentforce Sales, Services, Slack all saw year-over-year growth," Benioff said.

"We were told customers would abandon us.