“Expanding access to Claude is central to our public benefit mission, and we want to do it without selling our users’ attention or data to advertisers.”
— Anthropic

Instead, Anthropic plans to fund itself through enterprise contracts and subscriptions. At the same time, the company is exploring e-commerce transactions, such as bookings or purchases that Claude could carry out on a user’s behalf. As with OpenAI, Anthropic could take a cut from these transactions. The company insists, however, that Claude’s primary motivation will remain providing the most helpful possible response.

Anthropic’s statement comes shortly after OpenAI revealed its advertising plans for ChatGPT. OpenAI has even gone so far as to poke fun at ads in ChatGPT in some promotional videos.