cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49567801
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



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/
this seems like a bad thing to me given anthropic’s track record and manifesto.
They probably will integrate blender somehow
They did.