www.lesswrong.com/posts/m9Lmsu97HZshiqQ2r/people-might-start-believing-in-radica...

The post cites a Pharmaphorum piece about AbbVie and Calico increasing the size of their partnership. Calico's own 2021 press release says AbbVie and Calico will each contribute an additional $500 million to that collaboration, which was originally established in 2014 and extended in 2018. In other words, the $3.5 billion figure is for the joint AbbVie–Calico alliance, not for Google/Alphabet's standalone funding of Calico.

A separate STAT report from 2018 likewise says the AbbVie-Calico extension then underway brought Calico's total funding to $2.5 billion, with Alphabet and AbbVie each committing $500 million in that extension. Calico's own history page says the company was launched in 2013 with long-term funding from Alphabet, but it does not say Alphabet funding totaled $3.5 billion. So the specific claim that Google/Alphabet has funded Calico for "approx ~$3.5b total" misattributes a joint AbbVie-Calico partnership figure to Alphabet alone.