AI safety debate meets reality at Dreamforce as business leaders say last year's models are enough

Summary

At Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, keynote talks between Marc Benioff and the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia addressed the AI safety debate and whether model development is moving too fast. Attendees on the show floor said they were struggling to keep up with the AI tools they already have. Customers and partners told CNBC that older, cheaper models are powerful enough for everyday sales and customer service work.

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