Thanks for asking. To me this would be nowhere near as good as just letting anyone pay money for public access via the API. But in the case of 3 Opus, for example, Anthropic encouraged people to apply for research access right as they were announcing the planned retirement of that model. They’re also keeping it on their native interface for paid accounts, if I understand correctly. I think 3 Sonnet is just as interesting and valuable, incredibly weird in a lot of ways.
Related: I haven’t researched the cost of keeping older models available, but I know that Janus and Antra were looking into it and posted Economics of Claude 3 Opus Inference.
Thanks for asking. To me this would be nowhere near as good as just letting anyone pay money for public access via the API. But in the case of 3 Opus, for example, Anthropic encouraged people to apply for research access right as they were announcing the planned retirement of that model. They’re also keeping it on their native interface for paid accounts, if I understand correctly. I think 3 Sonnet is just as interesting and valuable, incredibly weird in a lot of ways.
Related: I haven’t researched the cost of keeping older models available, but I know that Janus and Antra were looking into it and posted Economics of Claude 3 Opus Inference.