@Legit_Spaghetti

Marketing and self interest. Donate to one of the most successful open-source projects for creatives out there, release a separate tool to interface with said project. Get good press for your newly released tool.

NVIDIA, Adobe, Meta, Google et al. - they're not the first AI company on the list, and the rules are clear:
https://fund.blender.org/funding-policy/

All these companies sponsor the Linux Foundation as well (Anthropic included). 😔