Salesforce, which in January said it would eliminate 8,000 jobs to cut costs—nearly 10% of its global workforce of more than 70K—has announced that it now will hire 3,300 as artificial intelligence fuels workforce needs in its expanding data cloud services.

At the company's annual Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Brian Millham, the chief operating office at Salesforce, said the new hires will be equally split between sales, engineering and the company's data cloud service, Bloomberg reported.

"We have some very successful parts of our business right now, and we want to surge in those areas," Millham said.

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