You've got to believe that they're doing this based on market research via the prompts people are entering, both as small businesses and possibly side project hackers not on plans without appropriate IP protection.
My point being, they know they need to make a viable business, and they've clearly seen demand. Meaning there are already a lot of small businesses trying to use Claude to do these things.
Given what they have I wouldn't be surprised if they setup a pipeline of niche toolsets that they can spin up in response to mass user prompting.
Not a pretty future for SaaS and side hustles.
i think its obvious they see themselves as google and not meta. theyre targeting b2b and will slowly squeeze out subscriptions towards everything is a token credits. eventually there wont be model selection and just varying credit types and conversions.
Since the "grand" idea is that all they need is the "god model with infinite parameters requiring infinite energy", the business model will align there.