Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron (www.blender.org)

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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

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Exactly, taking over a large existing codebase is a herculean task. So, most forks just end up adding superficial changes on top and keeping upstream code as is.

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