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Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron (www.blender.org)
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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.

Francesco Siddi, CEO at Blender

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (15 children)

Welp, that's Blender fucked then. It's just a matter of time.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    Doesn't sound that bad, does it?

    A lot of open source projects take money from companies to develop their stuff.

    It's not like Blender is forced to integrate AI now.

    I think this is a net good.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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 😄

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It’s not like Blender is forced to integrate AI now.

    from anthropic’s announcement: "The Blender developers have created an MCP connector, which is now officially available for Claude."

    MCP stands for "modern context protocol" and is a tech developed by anthropic for ai integration. in effect, yes, blender is forced to integrate ai. not claude specifically, mind you, but still.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Okay, but how bad is that?

    It is just an interface, or am i missing something here?

    Anthropic has no control over the project.

    They sponsored a feature that is still open to anyone to use or not use.

    The project is intact for all I can tell?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Think about MCPs as an API for AI. It's just an interface that let's AI do a set of predetermined tasks/configurations. It'll very likely be used for model generation via a prompt

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, i get the gist of it.

    Its just that I don't really see a problem with Blender creating an API.

    There are 2 options:

    1. AI will become awesome and take over the world. In this case I don't see how Blender would survive regardless of MCP integration status.
    2. AI will always be shite, Blender devs has implemented a useless API and got a lot of cash to keep developing Blender.

    I don't see how this is bad, honestly.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    It’s ’model complex protocol’ and you can’t stop people from making them to integrate with software. Basically you can create instructions so that the agent can use other software. I bet even w/o entropic there are already more than one on GitHub.

    It blew my mind when I played with the godot mcps for the first time not gonna lie.

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