Any ideas why anthropic is interested in blender funding?
I think maybe they want to expand 3d creations and modeling for future video gen with avatar type situation or maybe get into 3d game development.
Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
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#12That's already blowing up on Mastodon. Blenderartist silent for now. Won't stay like that for very long. I wonder, if Ton was involved in that decision, or if it's only Francesco. Could turn out to be a very unlucky start into the leadership role.
Aha - so that decision was not a consensus or community made one? I really don't know right now; no clue about the internals at blender. But that would be interesting ... I can see the headlines "Blender community sold to Anthropic. Forks starting in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ..."
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#13I can imagine they would be interested in creating features to generate 3d models.
Oh yes, I think this part is easy to see and perhaps even logical. But I also don't think this part is the problem. After all, generating 3d models is primarily a technical consideration. I don't think the technical prowess of software is an issue in this here.
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#14There will be community backlash. And it will not be uncalled for. Sad news.
Sadly so and it is the people who don't even fund open source projects.
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#15So Claude will soon do 3D modelling?
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#16Any ideas why anthropic is interested in blender funding?
> This support will be dedicated towards Blender core development, to maintain and continuously improve foundational features like the Blender Python API
Pretty much spells it out. They have an interest in extending/supporting the ability for Claude/CC to use and interact with Blender. There may be gaps in endpoints that Anthropic needs to enable certain patterns of automated usage.
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#17That's already blowing up on Mastodon. Blenderartist silent for now. Won't stay like that for very long. I wonder, if Ton was involved in that decision, or if it's only Francesco. Could turn out to be a very unlucky start into the leadership role.
Aha - so that decision was not a consensus or community made one? I really don't know right now; no clue about the internals at blender. But that would be interesting ... I can see the headlines "Blender community sold to Anthropic. Forks starting in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ..."
The militant open-source crowd never disappoints - rather burn down than build up.
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#18I love blender. They should get all the money they need.
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#19I have mixed feeling about this. Guess they can need the money ... but still. Data goes to Anthropic here. It also will buy influence in some ways, I am sure about that. We could see this with rubygems.org - when shopify threatened to cut funding some months ago, suddenly chaos erupted. Money buys influence, this is easy to see how.
Nowhere is that mentioned - perhaps Dario loves making 3D doodles on his days off :).
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#20It's because LLMs will soon start building real-world objects via CAD. This is the first step. Look at things like the Adam plugin for Onshape. Works great with Opus. It built a toy car for me with one prompt.