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Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by giancarlostoro »

cmiles8 wrote: post #6

Is anyone keeping track of all these “partnerships” and “investments” in one place? This is all turning into a ton of what looks like PR fodder that appears to go nowhere.

Compared to the insanely circular deals that OpenAI made? I have slight more confidence in Anthropics partnerships honestly. This is the Gates foundation dropping 200 million for use of Claude for medical research, unlike OpenaAIs weird "we will buy stuff off you in the future" but I don't know that they actually ever have or did.

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Post by giancarlostoro »

dev_l1x_be wrote: post #10
podgietaru wrote: post #8

Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.

The helped easing up on the resources of Earth with his investment in certain pharma companies and now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too.

> now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too.

What for though? I always hear this, but what's the point of it?

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Post by georgemcbay »

cmiles8 wrote: post #6

Is anyone keeping track of all these “partnerships” and “investments” in one place? This is all turning into a ton of what looks like PR fodder that appears to go nowhere.

A lot of the recent news just makes me think much worse of Anthropic.

If you're going to partner with a charitable Gates, choose the good one (though to be fair, she's probably going to be far more discerning).

And Anthropic's decision to become complicit in poisoning Memphis with Grok's methane turbines already put the lie to the idea they are the conscientious ones when it comes to large AI companies.

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Post by enugu »

cmiles8 wrote: post #6

Is anyone keeping track of all these “partnerships” and “investments” in one place? This is all turning into a ton of what looks like PR fodder that appears to go nowhere.

This doesn't seem to be investment focussed activity, but rather extending Claude credits for education and research. Which is a good thing, independent of other bad things that might be happening.

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Post by colechristensen »

enugu wrote: post #15
cmiles8 wrote: post #6

Is anyone keeping track of all these “partnerships” and “investments” in one place? This is all turning into a ton of what looks like PR fodder that appears to go nowhere.

This doesn't seem to be investment focussed activity, but rather extending Claude credits for education and research. Which is a good thing, independent of other bad things that might be happening.

And a sizable tax deduction.

Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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Post by icedchai »

amelius wrote: post #7

Gates missed the boat with the internet. This is not going to happen a second time!

They were a little late, but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. To say they "missed the boat" is a bit much. There was a dark period from 1999 to 2004 or so where IE was basically the only usable browser.

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Post by shimman »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #13
podgietaru wrote: post #8

Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.

He spent most of that effort undermining proven solutions and propping up his own investments which have a poor record so this is not out of character.

Let's also not forget his wife divorcing him over his Epstein partying.
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