
Sentient Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on advancing open-source AI technologies and building a decentralized, transparent ecosystem for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). They aim to empower communities to create 'Loyal AI' that is community-built, community-aligned, and community-owned, ensuring AGI serves humanity rather than corporate interests. Their roadmap includes launching a protocol, developing a fingerprinting library for their OML, and creating incentive layers for a new building economy. They are actively seeking engineers and researchers to contribute to their mission.

Sentient Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on advancing open-source AI technologies and building a decentralized, transparent ecosystem for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). They aim to empower communities to create 'Loyal AI' that is community-built, community-aligned, and community-owned, ensuring AGI serves humanity rather than corporate interests. Their roadmap includes launching a protocol, developing a fingerprinting library for their OML, and creating incentive layers for a new building economy. They are actively seeking engineers and researchers to contribute to their mission.
Organizational form: Nonprofit foundation stewarding open-source AGI
Core initiatives: GRID, ROMA, OML, ODS, Sentient Labs
Funding: Seed round announced 2024-07-02; reported total funding $85,000,000 USD
Team size: Approximately 36 employees
AI research and infrastructure for open, community-governed AGI
Artificial Intelligence / Research Nonprofit
Crunchbase and public materials report a Seed round announced on this date and list lead/backing investors; Crunchbase reports multiple investors (~26).
“Backed by institutional investors including Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework”