I’ve already had somebody ask me why I did not include Anthropic and Claude in this comparison. The reason is because they are actually more difficult to deal with on a contractual basis than OpenAI. Anthropic’s position is that they will not agree to redline legal agreements to do state-required language unless you buy an enterprise license with many more licenses than you need to do a pilot program. Given that stance, they won’t be doing much business with the government entities in my state. I think overall many of these startups don’t have a clue about how you work contractually with public higher education and until they get that business acumen it’s going to make it difficult for them to get traction with their tools on an enterprise basis.
I’ve already had somebody ask me why I did not include Anthropic and Claude in this comparison. The reason is because they are actually more difficult to deal with on a contractual basis than OpenAI. Anthropic’s position is that they will not agree to redline legal agreements to do state-required language unless you buy an enterprise license with many more licenses than you need to do a pilot program. Given that stance, they won’t be doing much business with the government entities in my state. I think overall many of these startups don’t have a clue about how you work contractually with public higher education and until they get that business acumen it’s going to make it difficult for them to get traction with their tools on an enterprise basis.
Thank you, Tim. I just shared this article with our Director of Academic Technology.