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 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

What do we make of this? Why this? Why now?

E: relevant blog post

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-blender-x-anthropic-thing-is-an-overreaction-but-also-not-at-all/

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They probably will integrate blender somehow

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

They did.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

this seems like a bad thing to me given anthropic's track record and manifesto.