Salesforce hosts Dreamforce as AI safety debate unfolds with leaders from Anthropic and Nvidia

Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference drew over 43,000 attendees to San Francisco on September 15, 2026, and what was supposed to be a product showcase quickly doubled as a proxy battleground for the biggest philosophical fight in tech: how fast is too fast when it comes to AI? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei effectively set up opposing camps at the event, with Huang pushing for full-speed-ahead development and Amodei arguing that the industry needs to pump the brakes on releasing advanced models. Caught in the middle, Salesforce played the pragmatist, unveiling enterprise AI tools built on the premise that companies don’t actually need the shiniest new models to get real work done. The great AI schism, live on stage Amodei didn’t wait for Dreamforce to start making his case. Three days before the conference kicked off, on September 12, he published an essay calling for a deliberate slowdown in the release of advanced AI systems, pushing for greater transparency and more robust safety practices before the next generation of models hits the market. Huang, speaking to a keynote audience of roughly 12,000, took the opposite view with characteristic directnes...