New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- Anthropic and Salesforce have broadened their collaboration to position Claude as a "trusted" model for regulated industries, the companies said. The multi-pronged tie-up makes Claude a preferred foundational model inside Salesforce's Agentforce platform, brings Claude Code to Salesforce's engineering teams, and deepens Claude's use across Slack with an explicit focus on healthcare, financial services, cybersecurity, and life sciences.

The deal signals a shift in how enterprise buyers will evaluate agentic AI: not only on raw capability but on whether the model can run inside a vendor-controlled trust boundary and meet stringent data and compliance requirements.

Anthropic will be the first large language model prov...