Odaily Planet Daily News: Open source AI platform Sentient announced the completion of a $85 million seed round of financing, led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures, and participated by Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, Hack VC, Arrington Capital, HashKey Capital, Canonical Crypto and Foresight Ventures. Sentient is using community contributions to build open source AI models, with the goal of competing with OpenAI. (Theblock)