ALL NPPS Members

[Maxim Potekhin <potekhin AT bnl.gov>]

Thanks to all for useful info!

Best regards,
Maxim


On 2/9/2026 8:50 AM, Brett Viren wrote:
> Hi Maxim,
>
> See Lisa's page for official status:
>
>    https://intranet.bnl.gov/itd/ai/services/
>
> I categorize things into basically 3 classes of service:
>
> 1) "Free" web UI.  Same as you can access yourself but "approved for
> use".
>
> 2) Paid web UI.
>
> 3) Paid API.
>
> Here "paid" implies better models / longer usage and a charge back to a
> BNL project/activity code.
>
> None of these options include Gemini but some do include flagship OpenAI
> and Anthropic models.
>
> The only #3 option so far is via BNL's access to Microsoft Azure.
> Lisa's tables still lists #3 as "TBD" but it does work and I use it
> almost daily.  My write up on that is here:
>
>    https://www.phy.bnl.gov/~bviren/wcwc/docs/wcwc-azure.html
>
> -Brett.
>
> Maxim Potekhin <potekhin AT bnl.gov> writes:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I just hit the usage limit of the free Claude plan. Can someone remind me if 
> > and
> > how it would be possible to get access to the department-paid plans? If there 
> > is
> > the ChatGPT option, that would be welcome to. So does the dept have Claude
> > as well?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Maxim