Strategy question
Anthropic has an emerging model capability, such as materially better long-context reasoning or tool use, but no obvious product. How would you determine whether the capability solves a real user problem, what evidence would make it credible rather than a demo, and what bar you would use to decide it is ready to productize despite noisy demand signals?
- Anthropic
- Strategy
- Hard
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