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Anthropic Offers Startups Free Claude Team Access Plus Credits
Anthropic is launching a program that gives startups a free year of Claude Team, its subscription plan for teams using Anthropic's AI assistant Claude, along with $1,000 in credits. The company says it built the program because it believes AI's benefits will mostly reach people through businesses that build on top of AI models, rather than through the models themselves. This move could help smaller companies afford AI tools without large upfront costs, potentially encouraging more startups to build products using Claude. It also signals how major AI companies are competing to get developers and new businesses hooked on their platforms early, according to TechCrunch.
Words to know
- Claude Team
- — Anthropic's subscription plan that lets groups of people use the Claude AI assistant together.
- Anthropic
- — An AI company that builds the Claude family of AI models.
- credits
- — Pre-paid amounts companies can use instead of paying cash for AI services.
- AI models
- — Computer systems trained on data to perform tasks like answering questions or writing text.
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