Sentient, an open source artificial intelligence development platform, announced the completion of an $85 million seed round of financing, aiming to break the dominance of centralized AI model development in the industry. This huge amount of financing has attracted much market attention.

It was disclosed that this round of financing was jointly led by Fetch.AI Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures. Other investors included Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, etc. The disruptive technology concept is to compete directly with OpenAI, create a decentralized artificial general intelligence (AGI) platform, and use blockchain technology to incentivize people and contributors to collaborate, build, replicate and expand AI models, and reward contributors.