Inside Salesforce's AI playbook

Welcome back, Superhuman. When the CEO of a $250B+ company says that he’s using AI to write his annual business plans, we should start paying attention. In our exclusive interview with Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s CEO lays out a future that’s arriving faster than we might be ready for — and tells us how he’s using AI at work and beyond.

Today’s Insights

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells us what’s next in AI

• Mistral Medium 3, Anthropic’s search upgrade, and in-browser agents

• Tutorial: How to turn simple text into PDFs with Grok

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

FROM THE FRONTIER

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells us what’s next in AI

AI represents “the biggest, most exciting transformation that any of us has ever gone through.” That’s a bold claim, but if anyone can make it, it’s Marc Benioff, the CEO and co-founder of $250B+ software giant Salesforce.

Here are 5 key things we learned from our conversation:

1. It’s time to start talking about the ‘unlimited age’: We’ve birthed a new species in AI. Tech giants like Microsoft and Meta are already handing around 30% of their coding tasks to AI. Our world could look very different once AI takes command of things like manufacturing and robotics and starts building its own worlds.

2. The AI wave is happening much faster than anything we’ve seen before: That’s because many AI advancements happen out in the open. Researchers actively share their findings, so when a breakthrough like DeepSeek’s R-1 happens, everyone else can take notes, accelerating the rate of progress.

3. Salesforce customers are already benefiting from AI: Thanks to new tools like Agentforce, companies like Singapore Airlines, reMarkable, and OpenTable have been able to deploy their own agents, including customer support agents that can answer questions autonomously to boost their productivity.

4. CEOs need to learn how to work with and manage AIs: When creating business plans, Benioff uses AI to ask things like:

• How does this compare to what my competitor is doing?

• Give me a letter grade on this idea.

• Am I considering all aspects of this market?

As AIs reach human-level capabilities, learning how to manage these digital workers will be an increasingly important skill. Benioff also has all the major AI apps on his phone and uses them for things like search, summarization, and editing.

5. AI still has some knowledge gaps: Benioff has discovered numerous valuable ideas through his conversations with LLMs. But there are still some problems that require a human touch. The next frontier is building AI that can generate truly out-of-the-box ideas on a consistent basis.

👉 Watch our full conversation here

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TODAY IN AI

1. Mistral drops frontier-level model at 8x lower cost: The Paris-based startup unveiled Mistral Medium 3, which approaches or outperforms Claude Sonnet 3.7 and GPT-4o on multiple benchmarks while costing less than DeepSeek’s v3. Companies can use the model via a new AI assistant called Le Chat Enterprise, which comes packed with an agent builder and full integration with your favorite apps. The startup, which has reportedly tripled its revenue in just the past 100 days, also teased that an even more powerful model is just weeks away.

2. Anthropic brings web search to its API: Developers can now connect their Claude-powered apps and agents to the web, giving them access to real-time information. That might not sound like a big deal, but consider the possibilities: You can now build an agent that analyzes stock prices and market trends to spot daily trends, or create a legal research agent that can surface court documents in real-time.

3. You can try this Operator-like agent right in your browser: Model repository Hugging Face released a tool called Open Computer Agent that, as the name suggests, can scour the web for you. Is it the fastest agent in the world? Probably not (we had to wait in a queue to try it). But all you need is an internet connection to give it a whirl. The retro-inspired interface is a nice touch, too.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to turn simple text into PDFs with Grok

• Go to Grok.com on your computer and log in. (works best on desktop)

• In the chat, type what kind of PDF you want. Be clear and specific.

For example: “Create a clean, modern resume for a product manager with 7 years of experience at SaaS companies. Include summary, key skills, work history, and education.”

• Grok will show you a preview of your PDF right in the chat.

• Once generated, you can ask Grok to make changes (add key projects section)

• Or click the code button to edit the HTML yourself, then hit Preview to see updates.

• When you're happy, click the download arrow to save the final PDF to your computer.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🌊 Tidal Wave: Hot off the heels of its reported $3B acquisition by OpenAI, Windsurf just unveiled its “biggest batch of updates yet” with new custom workflows, further MCP integration, and more across three days of announcements.

🦓 Stripe Sessions: Stripe just unveiled an AI foundation model for payments (that significantly improves fraud detection), stablecoin-powered financial accounts, and a new partnership with Nvidia.

🎨 Blank Canvas: Google’s bringing image-gen capabilities to Gemini 2.0 Flash, boosting the model’s image quality and text rendering while enabling higher rate limits for developers.

💊 Shot in the Arm: Wired reports that OpenAI has been meeting with the FDA to discuss a project called cderGPT that would use AI to speed up drug trials. (It can currently take over 10 years for a drug to come to market in the US.)

✨ Figma’s Flex: Design platform Figma is getting a major LLM-powered overhaul, letting you do things like create sites, apps, and marketing assets with AI. It’s the platform’s biggest challenge yet to rivals like Canva and Adobe.

PRODUCTIVITY

5 AI Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity

✅ Alumnium: Translate your test instructions into executable commands using AI.

✅ Aithor: Create outlines, generate drafts on your chosen topic, and add citations from reliable sources.

✅ Kompas: Conduct in-depth research across hundreds of webpages, saving you time by filtering out irrelevant data.

✅ Common Room: Enhance outbound sales strategies with a customer intelligence platform.

✅ Spring.new: Build custom apps and workflows in minutes with AI.

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🖼️ Image Inspo: If you’re looking for some image-gen inspiration, designer Jack Hillery has been sharing professional-quality logos and other creations. You can find some of his prompts here.

🎮 Paper to Pixels: 3D artist Austin Beaulier used ChatGPT to help turn his sketch of a Dungeons & Dragons map into a digital world, complete with dungeons, weapons, and fire effects.

📈 Trend Setter: Entrepreneur Amrish Rau shares some staggering stats that explain why the AI coding platform Cursor might be a model for the quintessential AI era startup.

🔮 All-Seeing Y: Y Combinator just shared a bunch of interesting startup ideas that it thinks could be huge successes in the agentic era.

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Note: AI tools are prone to hallucinations and inaccuracies. They are not a replacement for professional financial services. Please use these prompts with caution.

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AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Cat parade

Midjourney Prompt: a proud anthropomorphic cat that is marching with other cats to promote justice and equality for all. Photorealism. --v 7 --ar 9:16

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