I would love to use their API but I can never get anyone to respond to me. It's like they have no real interest in being a developer platform. Has anyone gotten their vague application approved?
Not really at the moment. I was asking it to help write some professional (but boring) letters of interest that were academic in nature. I found the style of writing to be closer to where I wanted it..so a very subjective.opinion.
We got access soon after the API was announced and have happily been using Claude Instant in production for a couple of months now. It may have helped that our use case was a good match for their capabilities.
Could you use AWS Bedrock? It seems like they are going with the route of let AWS handle the developer platform aspect and they will just work on the models.
I applied today; hopefully it will be a short wait. (and, hopefully, they won't hold my "I don't know what business I can build on this until after I try it" opinion against me)
Yeah, I find it interesting to read about their work, but it might as well be vaporware if I can't use the API as a developer. OpenAI has actual products I can pay for to do productive things.
That may be because they have a lot more budget and the support of one of the largest cloud providers on earth.
Offering free GPU compute to millions of people is really not an easy or cheap task.
Maybe... but not exactly what I meant in my case. I was commenting being able to get access at all, not my ability to pay. If Anthropic didn't have such a crazy application process I'd happily pay to use the API so I could learn more about it.
“We’re pleased to let you know that we’re expanding access to the Claude API.
As the next step in considering your application, we’ll need some further information from you. Please fill out our onboarding form.”
The form seems to be the same form I filled in months before. I’ve not heard back in the 7 days since.