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



Blender will be fine. They can’t make changes without going through pull requests and audits. At most, you might see some kind of Claude add-on. Totally opt-in.
…Until we’re convinced otherwise, of course.