[sebastiennight]

They're making a big promise here, that very few tech companies have been able to keep in the past.

Maybe there's a predictive market gamble starting about how long it will take Claude to follow suit if OpenAI starts making 9 figures in ad revenue.

[rtpg]

Counterpoint being that Slack, for example, for all its faults, does not have ads in its chats.

If Anthropic is positioned as "thing for professionals to do professional work" then I think you just avoid this issue entirely. Fee for service. OpenAI trying to be the thing everyone is using won't work in that model, though.

[potamic]

Member when today's biggest advertising company used to claim no ads as their USP? Tegridy members...