No they wouldn't. They have tons of funding. They absolutely can and do absorb costs like this. Don't think anyone is ever gonna tell you precise numbers (and it also varies based on workload of course)...but this is literally the business model of AI providers.
They're goal (similar to Uber, DoorDash, Robin Hood, etc.) is to get mass adoption. Their business models only work at this kind of scale.
It's completely impossible to have consumers pay $20-60/mo and be a profitable business without mass adoption where some are not using it as much as others...and, perhaps more importantly, the masses put pressure on their employers to pay for their tooling. This is why pricing does not need to come down.
Quite literally I have engineers spending over $1,000/mo on Opus. That's the goal.
I wouldn't be so sure about the courts overturning it. This is yet another opportunity for this administration to test its power. Even if the courts do, it'll be very time consuming and expensive.
Unfortunately this is really bad for Anthropic. Given how quickly the other providers jumped on the opportunity, you can tell how fast things move here and ultimately that could mean the difference between survival in this industry.
I hope something changes, but it can get a lot worse. Individual developers signing up won't help Anthropic. If things get worse, you can rule out Anthropic in most enterprise situations. Supply chain risk means you can't even build software with the thing. Forget about using AI as part of the product, as a user facing feature - people won't be able to build with it as it's part of the supply chain.
Should make one for skills. I'm curious how effective this ends up being though. The model does need to know something about the tools (or skills) after all.
It is more challenging, but I feel like it also has fewer people looking for that. That whole "move fast and break things" phrase messed with too many people's heads. I don't think people appreciate this segment of a product's life cycle as much as they should. They're always looking for the quick solutions.
It should be making them more useful. They can ask it questions to learn! It's an amazing source of information. Far more convenient than Googling and reading. It's interactive Google, interactive custom tailored education. Insane.
It's impossible for them to stop if you list your email on there. They could make it harder of course. But if you put your email out there for a human to find, then a script or bot or also find it.
And yes of course they can also stop a specific spammer. But that spammer may pick up another account and email.
The grandparent post wasn't asking for them to do the impossible and stop all spamming, only to take action against the particular user that spammed them.
They're goal (similar to Uber, DoorDash, Robin Hood, etc.) is to get mass adoption. Their business models only work at this kind of scale.
It's completely impossible to have consumers pay $20-60/mo and be a profitable business without mass adoption where some are not using it as much as others...and, perhaps more importantly, the masses put pressure on their employers to pay for their tooling. This is why pricing does not need to come down.
Quite literally I have engineers spending over $1,000/mo on Opus. That's the goal.
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