Think of the statefulness of the systems necessary to manage prompt caching.
Not to mention all the enterprise SLAs they have to meet before they serve traffic to gen pop.
Additionally:
- I believe Anthropic is running a planned promotion where short-term limits are doubled? Could be off on the dates though.
- It's two weeks before EOQ, and everyone's no doubt modeling and planning EVERYTHING last minute, because with Claude they can
- It is valuable infrastucture and thus a potential target of attackers