Clark: Anthropic will always keep an accessible consumer product
Jack Clark · Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark · May 9, 2024 · at 32:20
Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, discusses whether Anthropic will focus solely on enterprise value or maintain consumer products like Claude.
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“We're always going to have some Like, top of funnel, easy to access consumer thing, because we just can't ignore how useful this is to people, you know, and useful it is to writers especially.”
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