Open-source #AI platform Sentient raised $85M in a Seed funding round led by Ffoundersfund, Pantera Capital, Framework, with participation from Etherealvc, Robot Ventures, Symbolic VC, Delphi Ventures, Hack VC, Arrington, HashKey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Foresight Ventures
What is Sentient
Sentient is an AI research organization fostering a new Open AGI Economy for AI Builders and Creators. They are building platforms and protocols to enable open-source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and other innovations, (2) collaborate with each other to collectively build powerful AIs, and (3) be significant stakeholders in a new Open AGI economy.
Why Sentient
They are in an era reminiscent of the 1995 closed-source software landscape. At present, the dominance of closed-source AI has centralized immense power with a few organizations. Although open-source AI development exists, it lacks sufficient incentives for developers and does not enable them to be equal stakeholders. Furthermore, individual open-source AI contributions need to be composed through collaborations to get powerful AI that can compete with and surpass closed-source AI performance.
Sentient is building technology and products to address these critical challenges. They envision a future where AI development is open and transparent, and its access and monetization is decentralized.
How Sentient Does It
Sentient is building an AI platform for builders to collaborate and monetize their innovations. AI builders are the workhorses and principal actors of this economy, the ones who innovate and collaborate to build powerful new AI offerings. The underlying blockchain protocol and incentive mechanism provides the necessary economic alignment needed for the evolution of Open AGI in this collective offering.
For all this to work, it is necessary that the powerful AI models hosted on Sentient are Open, Monetizable and Loyal (OML) – “loyal” models are those which remain aligned with the community that built them, enforced by the underlying blockchain protocol.
Sentient has pioneered a new ambitious field in AI research with OML models. OML models will drive a shared Open AGI economy, supporting millions of AI agents and further downstream applications for billions of AI users.
Beyond introducing this new format, our platform will enable mass collaboration and discussion through the systems we are working on. They are building the tools for a new era of technology, finance and society.
