After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.
Likely nothing in this case since they aren’t going to be a full sponsor anymore. I believe real full sponsors can have some impact on the direction of feature development but that isn’t bad because it’s open source and adding features large companies want and will pay to have developed in open source tools isn’t bad.
“No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender”
“Like all Blender donations, it will be spent on core activities for the Blender project, supporting human-driven development, art, and creativity”.
And what does Anthropic get in return?
Likely nothing in this case since they aren’t going to be a full sponsor anymore. I believe real full sponsors can have some impact on the direction of feature development but that isn’t bad because it’s open source and adding features large companies want and will pay to have developed in open source tools isn’t bad.
“No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender”