Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription

Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new, very expensive subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier, Max comes with higher usage limits than Anthropic’s $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription, as well as priority access to the company’s newest AI models and features. A bit confusingly, Max comes in two flavors with different price points and usage limits. There’s a $100-per-month Max tier with 5x higher rate limits than Claude Pro and a $200-per-month Max option with 20x higher rate limits. Frontier AI model developers are looking for new ways to increase revenue — and offering power users an expensive AI subscription seems like a promising way to do it. Just two months after launching ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI reportedly told investors its annualized revenue grew by $300 million. Should Anthropic’s new Max plan be similarly successful, it could give the company a much-needed boost. Anthropic’s product lead Scott ... Read full article.