Google Wins Salesforce Cloud Deal in Bid to Counter Microsoft
The contract, worth $2.5 billion, is emblematic of how big tech companies are forging alliances to offer a broader menu of AI products.
As part of the deal, Salesforce is will also lets customers of its AI agent tool, Agentforce, to use Google’s Gemini models.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergSalesforce Inc. has signed a multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, part of a larger effort to combine forces and attract corporate customers currently using Microsoft Corp.’s productivity and artificial intelligence products.
Salesforce, which mostly relies on Amazon cloud services, has committed to spending at least $2.5 billion over seven years on cloud-computing services from Google. The agreement will now let Salesforce customers choose to run their customer-management software, Agentforce autonomous AI assistants and Data Cloud products on Google Cloud.