Yeah i know this wasn't the case for everyone but i got gpt-4 access back in march the next day. Tried Claude and still waiting. Oh well lol.

same here. I wonder why they are not opening it up to more devs. Seems strange.

Purely a guess, but having tried to scale services to new customers, it can be a lot harder than it seems, especially if you have to customize anything. Early on, doing a generic one-size-fits-all can be really, really hard, and acquiring those early big customers is important to survival and often requires customizations.

I got access to Claude 2 - it’s really good and have been chatting with their sales team. Seems they were reasonably responsive- but overall with OpenAI 128k context and price anthropic has no edge

Maybe my company address is not good enough. Never heard from them unfortunately. Tried a couple times.

They can't even compete with open source since multiple platforms have apis available.

I have not tried, but I assumed that API access to Anthropic's Claude is available through AWS Bedrock.

Which I think is the case now but the beta access to Claude 2 has had a signup on their site for months. I am not as interested in having to go through AWS Bedrock before even experience the potential performance of the API. I give a lot of praise to OpenAI for how quickly they are both scaling and releasing.