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Sep 26, 2026

Grace GongHOST
25:28
So, basically, it's, like, yeah, very difficult to sell any type of solution to enterprise because, like, enterprise is building everything in-house.
Grace GongHOST
25:37
Like, even, you know, I'm sure, like, you know, because, like, when I was, like, at Dreamforce, obviously, Dreamforce is, like, agent everything, right? So, like, it's agent.
Grace GongHOST
25:46
So, what would you say is, like...
Barr MosesGUEST
25:48
It's a good question.

8 MINS LATER

Barr MosesGUEST
33:39
Literally, why not? Because like
Grace GongHOST
33:41
nowadays, like I feel like because like one of the most popular use case I'm seeing from like enterprise is like it's like.
Grace GongHOST
33:48
So, yes, like, at Dreamforce, right, I was at the Crocs table.
Grace GongHOST
33:51
So, like, I did, like, a podcast with VP Paul.
EliHOST
0:01
It appears that CNBC must be watching Eli the Computer Guy commentary videos because they're finally coming around to my point of view.
EliHOST
0:14
AI safety debate meets reality at Dreamforce as business leaders say last year's models are... wait for it...
EliHOST
0:25
Good enough! Good enough! I'm not sure who has been screaming about this for a couple of years now.
EliHOST
0:35
Who out there has been using the example of smartphones and saying at one point a number of years ago smartphones got good enough so most people really don't care about the latest version of the smartphone.

8 MINS LATER

EliHOST
8:52
I remember, I remember what YouTube used to be.
EliHOST
8:55
You people, you people may not have even been born yet.
EliHOST
8:58
Anyways, at Salesforce's annual Dreamforce mega conference in San Francisco this week, the keynote conversations between CEO Mark Beinoff and the heads of Anthropic OpenAI and NVIDIA delved into the raging AI safety debate with the execs opining on whether model development is moving too fast.
EliHOST
9:17
are we moving too fast no no you're not no if i didn't do these videos if i didn't talk with isaac every week if i was just doing normal i really wouldn't care that much about ai it's amazing these ceos every day every day tell me how fast ai is moving And you're like, really? It's kind of like, I don't know what it is.
Dan O'ConnellGUEST
0:46
I'm doing great.
Dan O'ConnellGUEST
0:47
We've got a Dreamforce going on this week.
Dan O'ConnellGUEST
0:49
So being based in San Francisco, it's a little hectic outside, but I'm doing, yeah,
Adrian SwinscoeHOST
0:54
I'm
Adrian SwinscoeHOST
1:58
And as you said, you're in the epicenter of it, right in San Francisco.
Adrian SwinscoeHOST
2:02
For sure.
Adrian SwinscoeHOST
2:03
Dreamforce is going to go on then.
Adrian SwinscoeHOST
2:04
So What I wanted to do is actually just maybe explore a few themes.
Charlie TaylorHOST
0:13
I'm good, thanks.
Charlie TaylorHOST
0:14
Now, unlike normally, we are going to do things slightly different this week because last week was Dreamforce, which is Salesforce's annual gathering of however many people there are, fifty thousand odd attendees in San Francisco for their annual shindig.
Charlie TaylorHOST
0:28
Now, in a while I'll be talk- chatting to Michael Mahoney, an investment analyst at MyWallSt, and also a co-host on The Stock Club podcast, to get his take on what the event means in terms of whether shareholders and customers will have been happy with what emerged from it.
Charlie TaylorHOST
0:43
But first, you know, I, I wanted to look at D- Dreamforce because, I mean, it was one of those events this year where the great and the good of AI all came to one place.
Alice O'LearyPANELIST
0:52
Yeah.
Alice O'LearyPANELIST
0:52
And like you say, it's a, it's a massive conference.
Alice O'LearyPANELIST
1:50
Mm
Charlie TaylorHOST
1:50
... you reach any kind of consensus in Silicon Valley, but there we had it.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
0:33
And while they argued, the answer turned up on a file sharing site.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
0:38
On Tuesday at Dreamforce, Marc Benioff interviewed Dario Amadei in front of 12,000 people.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
0:44
Amadei had published an essay the Saturday before called We Must Pace the Frontier.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
0:49
Not a halt, a deliberate slowing of how fast capability improves in three steps.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
4:30
And the honest answer is less dramatic than the argument itself.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
4:34
The most useful reporting of the week came from the floor of that conference, not the stage.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
4:40
50,000 people were at Dreamforce and asked about the debate in the keynote hall where they described a different problem entirely.
Magnus OxenwaldtHOST
4:47
They can't keep up with the models they already have.
Peter GriffinHOST
0:16
This is the Business of Tech and I'm Peter Griffin.
Peter GriffinHOST
0:19
Yeah, I've just returned from Dreamforce, the annual conference of the software company Salesforce, which drew around 45,000 people to the Moscone Center last week in San Francisco.
Peter GriffinHOST
0:31
It's always been a barometer for where software and enterprise technology is heading.
Peter GriffinHOST
0:38
But this year, it felt like something more, a gathering at a decisive moment for artificial intelligence.
Peter GriffinHOST
3:15
since taking over from Hamish Miles in February.
Peter GriffinHOST
3:19
But he's been with the company since 2020, following around 18 years spent at a number of key roles at Vodafone UK and then at Vodafone New Zealand.
Peter GriffinHOST
3:28
We sat down at Dreamforce to talk about the rise of agentic AI, the future of software interfaces, why trustworthy data really matters.
Peter GriffinHOST
3:40
and how businesses can use AI to lift productivity without losing the human connection.
Taylor LorenzGUEST
19:28
And people have the memory of a goldfish, you know?
HelenHOST
19:30
The last week I went to New York and it's my, like every year, like whatever Salesforce announces when Dreamforce is, I'm like, okay, that's the week I will be in New York.
HelenHOST
19:40
But it felt like Dreamforce was like in the news and more relevant than ever before, kind of like a Twitter comeback.
HelenHOST
19:46
And probably because, I mean, they did such a great job of getting like really incredible, you know, relevant AI speakers, right? So, Like every head of a lab and Jensen was there too.
HelenHOST
19:59
And there were incredible memes.
HelenHOST
21:26
Like, oh, that made me think about the incumbents quite a bit.
HelenHOST
21:30
But yes, I thought the weirdest thing was Dario writing that pacing the frontier article, which we'll talk about in a second.
HelenHOST
21:38
And then showing up at Dreamforce.
Bob FurnissHOST
0:05
Bob, how are you, man? Good morning.
Bob FurnissHOST
0:08
So you made it safely on the red eye from Dreamforce, huh? Listen, maybe I'm not drinking enough water or what have you, but I've got
Amas TenumahHOST
0:16
shin splits from running to my gate.
Amas TenumahHOST
0:19
My goodness.
Amas TenumahHOST
1:03
But it was good.
Amas TenumahHOST
1:04
Look...
Amas TenumahHOST
1:05
Let me give you a summary of what Dreamforce is about.
Bob FurnissHOST
1:09
Okay.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:03
But you did say outages and that is actually what happened this week.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:06
So Dreamforce, which is the world's largest annual customer relationship management sort of CRM and tech conference is hosted by Salesforce.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:14
That happened, I think, last week.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:16
in San Francisco.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:03
But you did say outages and that is actually what happened this week.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:06
So Dreamforce, which is the world's largest annual customer relationship management sort of CRM and tech conference is hosted by Salesforce.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:14
That happened, I think, last week.
Sophie ValentineHOST
26:16
in San Francisco.

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