📲 Sentient is an ambitious open-source artificial intelligence (AI) project focused on building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in a decentralized and community-driven manner. Launched in 2024, the project aims to counter the dominance of closed-source AI models from giants like OpenAI and Anthropic by creating an open ecosystem where developers can collaboratively contribute, own, and monetize AI models. With an estimated valuation of up to 10 billion USD and backing from top investment funds, Sentient is emerging as one of the hottest AI-Web3 projects today, especially as the AI market is booming.
🔰 Sentient was founded by a group of leading experts in the fields of AI and blockchain:
• Sandeep Nailwal: Co-founder of Polygon (one of the most successful layer-2 solutions on Ethereum, which reached a market cap of $20 billion).
• Pramod Viswanath: Professor at Princeton University, expert in machine learning.
• Himanshu Tyagi: Co-founder, previously led projects such as Banyan Intelligence and Witness Chain.
• Advisor: Sreeram Kannan, CEO of EigenLayer.
The team also includes former employees from Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, along with professors from UIUC and IISc. They focus on making AGI more “equitable,” where the community not only uses but also owns and controls the technology.
🥇Sentient aims to build open-source AGI – an AI system capable of thinking, learning, and problem-solving like humans, but developed by the community rather than large corporations. The project addresses the main issues of current AI:
• Proprietary: Closed models like GPT-4 control data and revenue, making it difficult for the community to access.
• Transparency: Sentient uses “fingerprinting” technology to prove ownership of AI models, enabling developers to monetize their data and creations.
• Decentralized: Integrating blockchain to create a token economy where contributions are rewarded based on actual value.
✅ Raised $85 million, led by Founders Fund (the fund of Peter Thiel, who previously invested in OpenAI), along with Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, Delphi Digital, and Arrington Capital. This is one of the largest funding rounds for AI-Web3.
✅ Token $SENT: Not officially launched yet, but trading pre-market on Binance Futures at a price of ~0.062 USD (FDV ~2.2 billion USD)
🗓️ TGE: soon
Expected to list on the full exchange
