this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2026
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In these uncertain and divisive times, we appreciate Anthropic offering support to the Blender project in the form of a Patron-level membership. This enables the Blender team to keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.

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[โ€“] Almacca@aussie.zone 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I may just be being overly cynical, but once big corporations start giving money to these kinds of things, it's not a big stretch for them to start influencing things in their favour for their money. I hope I'm wrong.

[โ€“] hanke@feddit.nu 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope you're wrong too!

I believe projects are not all the same. Some projects might be quick to bend the knee, but others would never.

Depends how the Blender team works I guess :)

It is FOSS, so if it takes a turn to the worse I am sure they will be forked quickly ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

I am sure they will be forked quickly

ooh-err Missus!

[โ€“] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bro how do you think Blender has been getting money all this time?

[โ€“] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't really been keeping abreast of the situation. I'm only going by a gut reaction to this article. I'm happy to be proven wrong about this.

[โ€“] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They are sponsored by major corps like nvidia, meta,amd. Despite this they've continued to put out a good Foss product. I think they'll resist undue influence from antropic.

But I do think they'll integrate ai inas they're working on that at the moment.

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Fucking disappointing as hell, Blender has so much potential and getting side tracked into useless AI crap will be a massive drain on productivity and improvement on the core Blender software.