Anthropic directly funds Accenture/Faculty for its 'independent' evaluations
kevinnbass · x · 2026-10-17
Eleven days before the accord, Anthropic announced an evaluation partnership with Accenture, led by its specialist AI unit Faculty, embedding evaluators inside Anthropic — with Anthropic funding the work directly. Accenture also has business partnerships with OpenAI, Google, Meta and Nvidia; Coefficient Giving recommended $92,597 to Faculty in 2024 and Jaan Tallinn's ledger lists 50 BTC in 2020.
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