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.

Joey Krug, partner at Founders Fund, said that the most important thing about Sentient is the quality of the team. He has known Sandeep and Pramod for many years and they are very keen in their respective fields of technology.

Paul Veradittakit of Pantera Capital said closed-source AI development exposes critical aspects of society to censorship and rent-seeking. Sentient’s Open, Monetizable, and Loyal (OML) AI model has the potential to disrupt the industry.

Brandon Potts of Framework Ventures said that Sentient's open and monetizable AI model will inject strong power into the open source community, and the Sentient team is the best team to solve the economic problems of open source AI.

BlockBeats previously reported that on July 2, Sentient completed a $85 million seed round of financing, led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures, with participation from Ethereal Ventures and others. One of Sentient's core contributors is Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, and its advisor is EigenLayer founder and CEO Sreeram Kannan.