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Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

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  • keeda
    Missed 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.
  • cmiles8
    Is 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.
  • podgietaru
    Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.
  • sowbug
    Is that $200M with the prompt cache at five minutes, or one hour?
  • barbarr
    So... Does the Gates foundation get an equity stake?
  • rsync
    Let 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-foun...
  • slackfan
    Welp, time to make sure your triple F reserves are stocked up.
  • shevy-java
    Evil & 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.
  • anon
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  • lorecore
    Gross. Why work with an Epstein op?Edit: to those downvoting, even Melinda Gates left the Gates Foundation over Epstein. Not sure why my statement is even remotely controversial.
  • throwaway5752
    The 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.
  • varispeed
    I was hoping for De-Epsteinification of tech. Disappointment move.
  • hiroto_lemon
    The 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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  • hmokiguess
    How 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)
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  • kev009
    I'm a fan of Anthropic's product but this is incredibly tone deaf and makes me reconsider the judgement of their leadership.
  • kennywinker
    The gates foundation: money laundering and influence purchasing for billionaires who occasionally want to slip their wives antibiotics.
  • flossly
    The "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).
  • amelius
    Gates missed the boat with the internet. This is not going to happen a second time!