Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Anthropic has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron, contributing to the project's core development. This support aims to enhance foundational features like the Blender Python API, which benefits developers and artists. The Blender Foundation continues to focus on empowering artists with free and open-source technology.
- ▪Anthropic's membership involves a singular donation towards the Blender project.
- ▪The support will help maintain and improve the Blender Python API.
- ▪Blender is the most popular free and open-source 3D creation software.
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Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron April 28th, 2026 Archive Francesco Siddi Notice: The membership has been shifted to a singular donation towards the project. More details in the related blogpost. Blender Foundation announces that Anthropic is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron. This support will be dedicated towards Blender core development, to maintain and continuously improve foundational features like the Blender Python API, which enables developers and artists alike to extend and improve the software for custom workflows. Blender Foundation’s mission remains to empower artists with free/open source technology and tools.
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