According to BlockBeats, on July 14, partners from Sentient’s lead VC Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures talked about why they led the investment in the open source AI platform Sentient in an interview.

Joey Krug, partner at Founders Fund, said that the most important thing about Sentient actually comes down to the quality of the team. "I have known Sandeep and Pramod for many years, and they are very sharp in their respective fields of technology."

Paul Veradittakit, managing partner at Pantera Capital, said that if AI development remains closed source, many key aspects of society will be vulnerable to the concentrated effects of censorship and rent-seeking. Sentient's open, monetizable, and loyal (OML) AI model will "have huge potential to disrupt the AI ​​development industry."

Brandon Potts, partner at Framework Ventures, said that Sentient's open and monetizable AI model "will inject powerful power into the open source community" and that the Sentient team is the "most capable" team to solve the economic problems of open source AI. (The Block)

BlockBeats previously reported that on July 2, the open source AI platform Sentient completed a $85 million seed round of financing, which was jointly led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures, and participated by Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, Hack VC, Arrington Capital, HashKey Capital and others. One of Sentient's core contributors is Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. Sentient's advisor is EigenLayer founder and CEO Sreeram Kannan.