https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-py...
I must be the only one in here who thinks $1.5M is a small sum compared to Anthropic's size and the amount of value they have gotten out of Python. Good press is cheaper than I thought.
They are probably trying to build influence. Why is a startup that is burning cash donating money?
Still crazy how little investment goes to Python given how critical it is to the ecosystem.
Glad to see Anthropic continuing to invest in the longevity and quality of their open-source dependencies!
If you missed it, they bought Bun a while back, which is what Claude Code is built in: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
I did not know you could make donations with a string attached ("improve security")...
It's easy to donate, since it's not their money. They are not profitable. Just Nvidia's money, they're paying themselves for new GPUs and datacenters.
Internal forecasts indicate Anthropic’s annualized revenue run-rate could be between about $20 billion and $26 billion in 2026. Let's shoot for the middle, $23 billion
According to multiple articles, Anthropic expects to reduce its cash burn to around one-third of revenue in 2026.
This implies total spending is roughly revenue + cash burn ≈ $23 billion + $7.7 billion ≈ $30.7 billion
When you divide the total spending to the length of the whole year, $1.5 million would sustain Anthropic for roughly 0.43 hours, or about 26 minutes.
It's certainly better than absolute nothing!
"Over two years". Does that mean the foundation has to do what they want it to do or else the tap stops?
Looking at you Deepmind and OpenAI
Seems like a good time to throw out a reminder regarding "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure" by Nadia Asparouhova. While she may have published it in 2016, it's still relevant today and speaks to the need for the private sector generally (looking at you VC firms) to support and understand the open source work, hours of unfunded labor, powering our societies.
https://www.fordfoundation.org/learning/library/research-rep...
Just recently I heard that typed languages are best for agentic programming
This makes sense given how much of the current AI ecosystem is built on top of Python. I hope this helps the foundation improve security for everyone who relies on these libraries.