Comment by robga
2 years ago
I applied a few months ago. Last week I received an email:
“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.
It is amazing to me that VCs are giving billions to these companies that have no idea how to launch or support products.
I would assume that the revenue story they are pitching to VCs is licensing the model to AWS, which has pre-existing infrastructure for distribution.
No way in hell I’m jumping through all those hoops to use a mediocre LLM. I was up and running with the OAI API in like 15 minutes.