Comment by cagz

I think their intention is not mining your data (easily opt-outable) or hoping that you maintain the subscription after 6 months. It is rather making large open source project maintainers give AI a proper go.

Believe it or not, there are still a large amount of great tech professionals out there who are sceptical about AI. Many tried AI a year ago and has the impression that "It was alright but had limitations". AI came a long way since then, and it is going to improve even faster over the next 6 months. So this is Anthropics invite for you to join that journey.

In turn, of course this fuels the adoption by superstars (maintainers) endorsing the models.