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Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron (www.blender.org)
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In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.

Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The mindset of AI obsessed CEOs and tech people is toxic towards progress in any meaningful sense

Oh so the CEO is being given control over the direction of the project?

Anthropic is NOT PROFITABLE

Oh so when Anthropic starts to go under they're going to get their money back?

The distraction of building stupid AI capabilities into Blender

What AI capabilities are being built into Blender?

E: No answers were provided. Just downvote and move on, I suppose.

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