They already have corporate sponsorships from Google, Meta, Nvidia, and other big companies. Anthropic is just joining the list. This is actually good for Blender.

Weird attitude when 3D artists LOVE AI powered denoising and upscaling. Praying for the day AI makes it so I never have to UV unwrap a mesh again.

This is not bad news.

If Blender doesn't grow AI capabilities, its utility in the future will be severely degraded.

If you haven't seen 3D mesh, texturing, PBR, and retopo tools, they're getting extremely good.