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Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
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#22Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.
Don’t forget: friend of notorious pedophile jeffery epstein.
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#23Gates 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.
… i’m still seeing a therapist about this time period.
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#24Re: Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
#25Evil & Evil unite.
To explain: first, they did not pay proper taxes, in particular the older Evil here. But even more importantly, in the USA a foundation can own patents, among other things. They need to give out a certain % on a yearly basis, but basically it is a corporation.
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#26The gates foundation: money laundering and influence purchasing for billionaires who occasionally want to slip their wives antibiotics.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Who profits from that deduction and how?
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#28The line in the press release that matters isn't the $200M headline — it's
that the Foundation will use Claude across "global health, education, and
agricultural development" delivery work, not just research. That's
operational deployment, which means evaluation harnesses, deployment SLAs,
and prompt-caching strategy at scale across very heterogeneous use cases.
For reference: most enterprise commitments I've seen quoted near this range are training + dedicated capacity + a research collab. This one reads more like a multi-year managed-services contract attached to a delivery organization. Whether it produces anything depends entirely on the Foundation's eval-pipeline maturity — and historically large grant-making orgs aren't fast at standing those up.
The prompt-cache-window joke up-thread actually hits the right structural question: is $200M effectively the volume discount for committing 5-year batched workloads, or is it new R&D dollars? The press release wording is careful enough that I read it as the former.