Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Claude comes in peace.

“We’re not interested in destroying anyone,” Amodei said on CNBC earlier this week. “We think of this as a very positive sum thing, right?”

With Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff seated beside him, Amodei sought to put to rest Wall Street’s belief that Anthropic aims to conquer all things SaaS. After all, it was an Anthropic announcement in late January about plugins for Claude Cowork, not the four horsemen, that signaled the beginning of what became known as the Saaspocalypse. In one week, roughly $1 trillion in value was wiped out in the software sector.

Since then, some software companies…