Anthropic is planning to invest $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to support security in the Python ecosystem.
According to PSF’s blog post, the investment is set to make “crucial security advances to CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI)”, alongside sustaining the foundation’s work supporting the Python language.
“Python powers so much of the AI industry. Supporting the folks that make our work possible is an honour,” Alex Albert, Anthropic’s head of developer relations, wrote on X.
Planned projects that will utilise this funding involve creating new tools for “automated proactive review” of all packages uploaded to PyPI.
“We intend to create a new dataset of known malware that will allow us to design these novel tools, relying on capability analysis,” PSF stated. “One of the advantages of this project is that we expect the outputs we develop to be transferable to all open source package repositories.”
Outcomes of this work are set to improve security across multiple open-source ecosystems, starting with the Python ecosystem, as stated by the PSF. “We couldn’t be more grateful for Anthropic’s remarkable support,” PSF further mentioned.
Moreover, the donation will also help the PSF Developers in Residence programme, which drives contributions to CPython.
Users on social media were quick to praise this donation to PSF. “We need more capital flowing into these non-profit institutions instead of just going to the same capitalist players,” one user wrote on X.
Anthropic’s donation marks yet another step by the company to support the open-source ecosystem. Recently, the company donated its popular Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation.
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