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Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
- barbarr 6mo agoSo... Does the Gates foundation get an equity stake?
- scyzoryk_xyz 6mo agoAn equity stake? Psh time for the Gates Foundation to become a normal for-profit AI company!
- DANmode 6mo ago“It’s for National Security.”
- lorecore 6mo ago[flagged]
- Fokamul 6mo agoBecause it's the same people.
- honeycrispy 6mo ago[flagged]
- lorecore 6mo agoAs a leftist, I’ve never once considered Bill Gates or Anthropic to be even remotely left-wing. I’m not sure how it would be possible to frame them like that.
- honeycrispy 6mo agoThe polarizing vaccine mandate is one such example of alignment.
- nathan_compton 6mo agoI don't know of a single leftist who would call Gates a leftist. Liberal, perhaps, in the economic and social sense, but not a leftist in any way shape or form. I don't know why its so hard for people to distinguish between these two very different groups.
- cout 6mo agoBlame Rush Limbaugh and others for conflating them in the 90s. I don't know if people generally know the difference before that, but personally it's only been recently that I've been exposed to sources that distinguish between left and liberal.
- mrhottakes 6mo agoYes, one of those numerous notoriously left-wing billionaires, that definitely exist.
- 9753268996433 6mo ago[dead]
- tjpnz 6mo agoNo idea why these comments keep getting downvoted. The Epstein connection and what he did to Melinda has destroyed any credibility he once had among the general public.
- Fokamul 6mo ago[flagged]
- cmiles8 6mo agoIs anyone keeping track of all these “partnerships” and “investments” in one place? This is all turning into a ton of what looks like PR fodder that appears to go nowhere.
- romaniv 6mo agoEd Zitron[1] has a lot of articles and podcast episodes on these deals. The nice thing about it is that he occasionally revisits the old announcements to check what happened with them. Apparently a lot of these deals just evaporate after prolonged contact with reality. [1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/
- hnthrow0287345 6mo agoThis stuff helps prevent the bubble popping, which means when they want the bubble to pop, they stop announcing these deals, giving them a great lever of profit. Crazy how they can just lie to this extent without consequences. Or still get paid millions for making bad deals, meaning incompetence
- davnicwil 6mo agoI think a tell that many of these deals likely aren't real and are basically just PR is the numbers are super round and digestable. That's a clear signal that little analysis has gone into the numbers and, most generously, there's nothing but the shape of a deal the details of which will be ironed out and adjusted in practice. I get that the amounts of funding and capital being sat on for the respective parties are collossal and lead to rounding that doesn't make sense from the point of view of an individual any more (what's a few million at this scale, just round up to nearest 10, etc) but deal sizes of literally round numbers of 100s start to stretch credibility on whether any real analysis was involved. In fact it'd be a ridiculous coincidence if it had been. They're the kind of figures where you'd recheck your calculations to check it's right as it seems too perfectly round.
- danielbln 6mo agoEd Zitron is a terrible source, he is so staunchly anti AI that he is effectively blind. Once in a while he'll be right by pure chance, but I wouldn't rely on any of it.
- amelius 6mo agoGates missed the boat with the internet. This is not going to happen a second time!
- icedchai 6mo agoThey were a little late, but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. To say they "missed the boat" is a bit much. There was a dark period from 1999 to 2004 or so where IE was basically the only usable browser.
- chrisrickard 6mo ago… i’m still seeing a therapist about this time period.
- josefx 6mo ago> but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. By offering it for "free" as part of the OS. Which they could only do because they never intended to pay the developers who wrote it. In a classic Microsoft move they fucked over their competition, their partners and the entire ecosystem for well over a decade.
- bombcar 6mo agoThe MA hate is real and well deserved but there actually was a period of time where IE was the browser of choice for all the right reasons. People forget that part, but Microsoft has really made good products when they want to.
- adzm 6mo agoPlus IE got the box model right in the first place. It really was a good browser and had an interesting design with COM / MSHTML for embedding. The problem really was that it stagnated and had no real competition until Chrome (even though Firefox was slowly gaining traction) Plus during this time there was little competition on the desktop market in general. iPhone and smart phones, and the Apple resurgence, was yet to come.
- podgietaru 6mo agoBill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.
- dev_l1x_be 6mo agoThe helped easing up on the resources of Earth with his investment in certain pharma companies and now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too.
- giancarlostoro 6mo ago> now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too. What for though? I always hear this, but what's the point of it?
- cma 6mo agoAny given year congress could pass something letting farmland owned before X date be passed to your children without taxes. I've seen lots of congressmen telling sob stories about a constituent losing the 8-figure family farm due to taxes. Gates owns the farmland personally, not in the foundation. But it could just be diversifying assets. Lots of tech billionaires buy up lots of land.
- mikeyouse 6mo agoHe’s donated something like $100 billion already… there’s no chance he’s buying farmland as an inheritance tax dodge.
- giancarlostoro 6mo agoHe has also said it many, many times, he's not leaving his kids anything.
- cma 6mo agoI was thinking Buffett said that and Gates was still leaving some. I don't know why the farmland then. Maybe to get easy access to veterinarian antibiotics.
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- sowbug 6mo agoIs that $200M with the prompt cache at five minutes, or one hour?
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- shevy-java 6mo agoEvil & Evil unite. To explain: first, they did not pay proper taxes, in particular the older Evil here. But even more importantly, in the USA a foundation can own patents, among other things. They need to give out a certain % on a yearly basis, but basically it is a corporation.
- dyauspitr 6mo agoGates is probably the least evil person I can think of. The truly decrepit evil lies in the halls of our government now.
- tombert 6mo agoEven if you forgive him drugging his wife, which you shouldn't, he's not exactly a good person. Read through the antitrust stuff that happened in the 90's. He's not a good guy. I know he puts on this persona of "geeky nice guy", and I'll admit that I fell for it too long, but he's a multi billionaire, and like other multi billionaires he is not a good person. If he is the "least evil person you can think of", then you're not thinking very hard.
- baobabKoodaa 6mo agoOddly specific to call out multi billionaires. So a single billion is fine? The threshold is at 2?
- tombert 6mo agoI'm not going to blame a fellow pedant for being pedantic :) You could probably amend this to "billionaires", instead of the qualifying "multi billionaires". ETA: You know, I was thinking, just because I qualified it with "multi" in front doesn't really imply that single-billionaires aren't evil. I didn't specify that serial killers are evil either, but I don't think me not specifying that implies that I think they're fine.
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- kennywinker 6mo agoThe gates foundation: money laundering and influence purchasing for billionaires who occasionally want to slip their wives antibiotics.
- hiroto_lemon 6mo agoThe line in the press release that matters isn't the $200M headline — it's that the Foundation will use Claude across "global health, education, and agricultural development" delivery work, not just research. That's operational deployment, which means evaluation harnesses, deployment SLAs, and prompt-caching strategy at scale across very heterogeneous use cases. For reference: most enterprise commitments I've seen quoted near this range are training + dedicated capacity + a research collab. This one reads more like a multi-year managed-services contract attached to a delivery organization. Whether it produces anything depends entirely on the Foundation's eval-pipeline maturity — and historically large grant-making orgs aren't fast at standing those up. The prompt-cache-window joke up-thread actually hits the right structural question: is $200M effectively the volume discount for committing 5-year batched workloads, or is it new R&D dollars? The press release wording is careful enough that I read it as the former.
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- flossly 6mo agoThe "Melinda" bit already dropped? Why did she leave him? Great guy to do a partnership with the same-named foundations of. I'll take the downvotes (just saw that _all_ posts that comment negatively on the foundation are well downvoted: I gave each of 'm an upvote just to counter all the AI bots on here, cause sure there are).
- benatkin 6mo agoThis seems to be quite a recent development. duckduckgo has Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the title. Google and the title tag on the website do not. As for the value of Bill Gates as a husband or of his foundation, the positives don't outweigh the negatives. I have no problem saying with certainty that this is a bad move on Anthropic's part, because anything that Gates Foundation does could be done under an untarnished name.
- throwaway5752 6mo agoThe Gates Foundation has done measurably terrible work harming public education in the US. They do good work on infection disease, vaccines, and childhood mortality in the world but this partnership speaks to the worst of what the foundation does. I hope someone there has some perspective for where they have wasted charitable funds and can use that insight here.
- Schiendelman 6mo agoYou say measurably - tell us more about the measurement?
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- kev009 6mo agoI'm a fan of Anthropic's product but this is incredibly tone deaf and makes me reconsider the judgement of their leadership.
- kridsdale1 6mo agoWhy?
- tombert 6mo agoNot the OP, but I suspect it's because of Bill Gates' recent scandals involving Jeffrey Epstein. Specifically with Bill Gates spiking his wife's food with antibiotics to cover up the fact that he got an STD from a Russian prostitute.
- dyauspitr 6mo agoI’d much rather have someone spike my food with antibiotics than anything else.
- tombert 6mo agoI mean, sure, in the set of things that one could put into my food surreptitiously, antibiotics is one of the better ones (I guess assuming that the spiker does the full regimen). I'll acknowledge that amoxicillin is better than a roofie. It's still unbelievably scummy to infect your partner with a disease and then drug that partner because you're too much of a coward to come forward about it. Adultery is already bad, infecting your partner because of that adultery is bad, drugging them to cover it up is bad.
- DANmode 6mo agoGood for you, out here in the normal world, doing any of this surreptitious stuff is wrong, and if you’re following, it’s only the tip of their iceberg.
- chabes 6mo agoWhat purpose does a statement like this serve? Like most, I’d much rather my food not be spiked at all.
- keeda 6mo agoMissed opportunity to call this a "Phil-Anthropic" partnership. The word doesn't appear once in TFA. Highly disappointed. Seeing some of the comments here speculating about ulterior motives, I'd like to say there are probably none other than the usual (goodwill, publicity, taxes, etc.) A little known aspect of the Gates Foundation finances, their problem really isn't getting more money. Their biggest problem is spending their money faster than it grows.
- karussell 6mo agoBill-Anthropic ;)
- fakedang 6mo ago[flagged]
- ffsm8 6mo agoWasnt his only connection fcking a legal Russian teen and getting STDs from that? (And consequently getting blackmailed for that) While he's a shit person for that (taking advantage of sexual trafficking victims is despicable), I'm not sure I'd be comfortable to use that term - but maybe I'm just not informed enough?
- mohamedkoubaa 6mo agoPublic shaming is important for society to function, let it go
- snickerbockers 6mo agoIf you go to a private island owned by a man who's known for being a convicted pedophile and you attend sex parties on said island hosted by said pedophile when it is known that some subset of those sex parties involve what can be at best termed "statutory rape" (if we were to give the benefit of doubt to somebody who does not deserve it) and then you donate millions of dollars to a supposed charity at the behest of said pedophile in response to his having threatened to reveal something to your wife that would in all likelihood culminate in the sudden termination of your marriage to her then there is still a possibility that you yourself are not actually a pedophile but I'll just go ahead ans assume that you are one anyways.
- CodeWriter23 6mo agoClaude is officially dead to me now.
- hmokiguess 6mo agoHow far are we from the next pandemic followed by the first "AI Vaccine" developed by Claude Mythos in collaboration with the Gates Foundation and Pfizer? (/s)
- rsync 6mo agoLet me guess ... Gates Foundation and/or principal actors attached to the Gates Foundation have equity stakes in Anthropic ... ... and they have made a decision to direct charitable funds toward the committed purchase of Anthropic tokens. Do I have that right ? Very much like Huang charitable foundation committing to purchase Coreweave services[1] ... which Huang has equity stakes in ? [1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-ceos-foundation-buys-108-million-ai-computing-coreweave-donates-it-2026-05-13/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-ceos-foun...
- varispeed 6mo agoI was hoping for De-Epsteinification of tech. Disappointment move.
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