Anthropic announced on Wednesday that a new, very expensive subscription plan for AI Chatbot Claude: max. An answer to Openai’s Chatgpt Pro Tier, Max comes with higher use limits from Anthropic’s Claude Pro subscription, as well as priority access to the latest models and features of AI’s company.
A little confused, Max comes in two flavors with different prices and limits. There is a maximum level of $ 100 per month with a higher 5x limits than Claude Pro and a maximum option of 200 times with 20x higher limits.
AI Frontier model developers are looking for new ways to increase revenue – and by offering power users a costly AI subscription looks like a promising way to do so. Just two months after the start of Chatgpt Pro, Openai told investors His annual revenue increased by $ 300 million. If Anthropic’s new Max Plan is just as successful, it could give the company a much needed.
Anthropic’s product, which Scott White told TechCrunch in an interview that the company does not exclude the start of even top subscriptions one day. Specifically, Anthropic still does not have an unlimited use plan, which offers Openai with the Chatgpt Pro.
When asked if Anthropic will ever consider starting a Claude $ 500 plan per month, White said: “We will always maintain a series of exploratory choices that have us available.” Users’ comments will continue to guide Anthropic’s march map, he added.
To respond to the huge cost of developing AI Frontier models, Anthropic is exploring various new revenue channels, one of which is Claude for education. Claude for educational goals of the university’s clients, providing specific opportunities and benefits for colleges.
Anthropic refused to tell TechCrunch how many Claude’s subscriptions he has sold to date. However, White said the company’s new Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI has created a “much demand” for its products. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Anthropic’s first reasoning model, a model type that uses more computational power than traditional models to answer some more reliable questions.
