According to TechFlow, The Block reported that Sentient, an open source artificial intelligence development platform, has completed a seed round of financing of US$85 million. The round was co-led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures, and other investors included Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, etc.
One of Sentient's core contributors is Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. Sentient's advisor is EigenLayer founder and CEO Sreeram Kannan. Sentient is committed to building open source AI models through community contributions to address the centralization and security ethics issues in the current AI field. Sentient plans to launch a testnet in the third quarter of this year and plans to use Polygon's technology for development.
