@Blender regardless of what your funding policy might say, accepting funding from such an infamous company that is so widely hated specifically by your user base is not a good idea.

And honestly I also find it short-sighted, given the massive bubble and constant bleed of money these companies have. Gaining long term unpopularity for what I believe will likely be short term funding seems like a poor strategy to take.

I think everyone would have been much happier if the headline was "Blender rejects funding from Anthropic", even better if it was followed by another headline saying "Blender drafts new AI policy prohibiting the use of genAI for its development process".