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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 jedberg »

keeda wrote: post #49

Missed opportunity to call this a "Phil-Anthropic" partnership. The word doesn't appear once in TFA. Highly disappointed. Seeing some of the comments here speculating about ulterior motives, I'd like to say there are probably none other than the usual (goodwill, publicity, taxes, etc.) A little known aspect of the Gates Foundation finances, their problem really isn't getting more money. Their biggest problem is spend…

Not only that, but to legally be a charity, you have to spend at least 5% of your assets every year. So not only do they have to stay ahead of their own growth, they have to spend down 5% of quite a lot!

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

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Post by chabes »

dyauspitr wrote: post #54
tombert wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the OP, but I suspect it's because of Bill Gates' recent scandals involving Jeffrey Epstein. Specifically with Bill Gates spiking his wife's food with antibiotics to cover up the fact that he got an STD from a Russian prostitute.

I’d much rather have someone spike my food with antibiotics than anything else.

What purpose does a statement like this serve?

Like most, I’d much rather my food not be spiked at all.

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

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Post by datadrivenangel »

chadash wrote: post #40
colechristensen wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And a sizable tax deduction.

IANAA, but pretty sure you can only deduct a donation against business profit. Are you suggesting that Anthropic is running at a profit?

you can often carry over the losses for multiple years sometimes.

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

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Post by adzm »

bombcar wrote: post #73
josefx wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. By offering it for "free" as part of the OS. Which they could only do because they never intended to pay the developers who wrote it. In a classic Microsoft move they fucked over their competition, their partners and the entire ecosystem for well over a decade.

The MA hate is real and well deserved but there actually was a period of time where IE was the browser of choice for all the right reasons. People forget that part, but Microsoft has really made good products when they want to.

Plus IE got the box model right in the first place. It really was a good browser and had an interesting design with COM / MSHTML for embedding. The problem really was that it stagnated and had no real competition until Chrome (even though Firefox was slowly gaining traction)

Plus during this time there was little competition on the desktop market in general. iPhone and smart phones, and the Apple resurgence, was yet to come.

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

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Post by Schiendelman »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #43

The Gates Foundation has done measurably terrible work harming public education in the US. They do good work on infection disease, vaccines, and childhood mortality in the world but this partnership speaks to the worst of what the foundation does. I hope someone there has some perspective for where they have wasted charitable funds and can use that insight here.

You say measurably - tell us more about the measurement?

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

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Post by snickerbockers »

keeda wrote: post #49

Missed opportunity to call this a "Phil-Anthropic" partnership. The word doesn't appear once in TFA. Highly disappointed. Seeing some of the comments here speculating about ulterior motives, I'd like to say there are probably none other than the usual (goodwill, publicity, taxes, etc.) A little known aspect of the Gates Foundation finances, their problem really isn't getting more money. Their biggest problem is spend…

Agreed, I imagine it's been a lot harder for bill to offload all that excess money ever since jeff epstein died.

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

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Post by motbus3 »

keeda wrote: post #49

Missed opportunity to call this a "Phil-Anthropic" partnership. The word doesn't appear once in TFA. Highly disappointed. Seeing some of the comments here speculating about ulterior motives, I'd like to say there are probably none other than the usual (goodwill, publicity, taxes, etc.) A little known aspect of the Gates Foundation finances, their problem really isn't getting more money. Their biggest problem is spend…

It would need to be Bill-anthropic which somehow sounds much like it

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

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Post by mohamedkoubaa »

snickerbockers wrote: post #87
keeda wrote: post #49

Missed opportunity to call this a "Phil-Anthropic" partnership. The word doesn't appear once in TFA. Highly disappointed. Seeing some of the comments here speculating about ulterior motives, I'd like to say there are probably none other than the usual (goodwill, publicity, taxes, etc.) A little known aspect of the Gates Foundation finances, their problem really isn't getting more money. Their biggest problem is spend…

Agreed, I imagine it's been a lot harder for bill to offload all that excess money ever since jeff epstein died.

Most convincing evidence to date that he is in fact dead
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