Businesses that are already in conversations about building partnerships and training with Anthropic.

The real revenue that foundation model companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others generate comes from enterprise deals with a smattering of government - not consumer.

Consumer usage is largely a loss leader used as a training/refining tool, and it's best to view the economics of foundational model providers through the same lens you would a hyperscaler.

A major component to AWS's rise was the ecosystem built around training and teaching how to use the AWS ecosystem thanks to the AWS certification program. Same for K8s via the Linux Foundation.

By building a partnership and training motion, Anthropic can get the WITCHes, Deloittes, PWCs, Accentures, KPMGs, and others to start offering turnkey services, which is why Anthropic has been working on building co-sell relationships with those kinds of companies.

In interview/hiring situations where they're not expected or effectively required, they make for great chat fodder and a really good opportunity to exhibit awareness about yourself, the industry, and how the person on the other side of the table might perceive certifications given the context.

Or governments/large organizations performing box checking exercises

Doesn't stop them being useless though, like giving an electric drill to a chimp and telling them to build a house...lots of action, a lot of screeching, not much work.

One of the mistakes with AI is that people believe it will turn lead into gold: if you give AI bad prompts, AI will produce bad work.

Startups / technology companies that expect employees to be self-starters who can be set free to frolic amongst the problems are an aberration.

Linked from here: https://claude.com/partners

In fact, if you look at basically every major AI/LLM player you'll see a similar "alliance" or "partnership". Its a sales channel of high end referrals.