Comment by sigmoid10

This is the same scheme that OpenAI has used since GPT 2. "Oh no, it's so dangerous we have to limit public access." Great for raising money from investors, but nothing more than a marketing blitz campaign. Additionally, the competitors are probably about to release their models, while Anthropic is still lagging on the necessary infrastructure to serve their old models. So they have to announce their model before the others to stay at least somewhat relevant in the news cycle.