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Publications
- What's this?
- Go to a place without anyone
- Hey there
- tree
Geometric design
- “Marusovka” restaurant
- BIMPS NOOO
- Day 4: a calmer @lens/bimpster marks the path here
- I found your affirmation card.✨
- Matcha is the greatest drink in the world. 💚
- **Brainstorming Dream Home**
\-
3D illustration of a cute boy with colorful clouds, a house and flowers, head, an Asian girl, Natalia Rak and Ryo Takemasa, a spring scenery background with clouds, blue sky, drops, surreal, high
- Gm and gn
How my day always starts
- 虹って普通夜中には出ないけど… 夜空にあるとより映えるからいい表現だと思ってる！♪ How about rainbow in night sky? #髪でイメチェンサークル #AIgirl
- 夜空に虹と聞いて 色々勘違いするのが... る か ち w Rukachi_hime
- ちっちゃい仔象さんに跨って乗っってまぁすぁ…仔象さん…そんなに揺れちゃ…だめぇ…ちん…気持ちよくなってきちゃったちぃん…でも ぁ…仔象さん…そんなに揺れちゃ…だめぇ… 気持ちよくなってきちゃったちぃん…ぁ… こんなの…こんなのゾウニーちん…あぁだめ…ゾウニーがやめられないちぃん…
- 暑くてバテて動けない やる気スイッチを押してあげよっか 「もう土曜の夕方だよ( ᐛ )」 #AIart #ShigureMix
- **PLAY GAME**
@BONSAI🍎🍓🐱
😍😀Hi, everyone. I´m new to this. This platform is interesting with all its content.
- Hello this is my original character "Scrimblis The Tormented"
He is haunted by phantoms and mourns a log, please collect him and keep him close and closed within your wallet, so that he may gain refuge from the evils of the world.
- GM Frens! I'm still playing around with the clay stuff and made another character. I’m getting the feel for it now, so I think I know how to make that sword I posted earlier! 🤓
- SATURDAY $00
🟢247:420🟣
Live Chat at https://bloomers.tv/b0gie
-
- GM Frens 🔥🔥🔥
- City Blusher
📷 2023
*never published before
- If you like, mint and help me release a pretty special club ;)... A lot more to come xoxo
- Sentient: Top VCs rush to invest, with $85 million in seed round
What is Sentient?
According to the Sentient Foundation, Sentient is an AI research organization dedicated to building a new Open AGI economy for AI builders and creators. Sentient is building platforms and protocols that enable open source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and other innovations, (2) collaborate with each other to build powerful AI, and (3) become important stakeholders in the new Open AGI economy.
Sentient believes that closed source AI currently dominates the AI field, concentrating enormous power in a few organizations. Although open source AI exists, it lacks sufficient incentives for developers and its performance cannot match or even exceed that of closed source AI. Sentient envisions a future where AI development is open and transparent, and its access and monetization are decentralized.
From the information currently disclosed, Sentient has very few technical details and only some general ideas. Sentient will build an AI platform where AI developers are the main force and major participants. They build powerful AI products through innovation and collaboration, relying on the economic coordination provided by the underlying blockchain and incentive mechanism to achieve Open AGI. The AI models hosted on Sentient are "Open, Monetizable, and Loyal" (OML). OML models will drive the shared Open AGI economy and support downstream applications for millions of AI agents and billions of AI users.
According to Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon and founder of AggLayer, Sentient will be built on Polygon Agglayer.
Behind the Sentient team and founding
Looking through Sentient's official information, it can be found that the core figures of Sentient mainly include Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon and founder of AggLayer, Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, Pramod Viswanath, professor of Web3 at Princeton, and Himanshu Tyagi, professor of Indian Institute of Science (IISC).
They are the founders of the hugely successful star encryption projects (Polygon and EigenLayer) and well-known professors in academia, so it is very easy to understand why they have attracted huge bets from top VCs.
As Joey Krug, partner of Founders Fund, bluntly said, investing in Sentient is mainly an investment in the team.
Sandeep Nailwal talks about the origins of Sentient:
Not long ago, I was in Dubai with Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, to discuss my ideas about how encryption can solve the centralization and security problems of AI, and how Polygon can play a role in shaping this major shift in humanity. I told him, but what if AI models are loyal to their creator communities? He didn't laugh. Instead, he asked a lot of questions, and I explained my thought process to him. Finally, he said, this could be huge. He shared my thinking with Princeton professor Pramod Viswanath (who is the co-inventor of Flash OFDM, the technology behind the 4G wireless standard) and Himanshu Tyagi of the Indian Institute of Science (IISC), who were already working on something similar. Pramod said that this thinking could give birth to a whole new branch of AI+cryptography research and call it AI native cryptography. This research became Sentient.
It will be built on Polygon Agglayer, and I will help them as a core contributor. This project is very ambitious and model-fidelity, and it tries to solve a problem that has never been solved from this direction. With this financing, Sentient has attracted some of the best AI talents in the world, and the AI team is also working with senior talents from Google, Deepmind and other world-class AI companies. If successful, Sentient may change the relationship between humans and AI. Let's try to build it and see how it goes.
Why investors invest in Sentient
After Sentient officially announced that it had obtained seed round financing, the heads of various VCs involved in the investment also came out to publish articles to talk about the thinking behind investing in Sentient.
Tommy, co-founder of Delphi Digital and founding partner of Delphi Ventures:
The black-box authoritarian AI future is the enemy, and global, permissionless AI innovation is the goal. The Sentient team focuses on hosting open source models that can be audited and built by the whole world, but combined with cryptographic incentives to ensure that capital expenditure costs and value are protected, which is ambitious, but it will be very important if it is solved.
Framework Ventures:
We just co-led a round of $85 million in Sentient, an AI research organization that is building a new open AGI economy for AI builders and creators. Here are the reasons why we are happy to support this team.
The current state of AI is reminiscent of the closed-source software era in 1995. A few organizations dominate and concentrate huge power. Open source AI development exists, but there is a lack of sufficient incentives to allow developers to become equal stakeholders.
Sentient enables open source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and innovations, (2) collaborate to build powerful AI together, and (3) become key stakeholders in the new open AGI economy. We think this will be a game changer for the AI community.
Sentient is building an AI platform that relies on underlying blockchain protocols and incentives. AI models hosted on Sentient are “Open, Monetizable, and Loyal” (OML), meaning they are aligned with the community that built them and enforced by the blockchain.
Joey Krug, Partner at Founders Fund:
We invested in Sentient primarily as an investment in the team, but there are also some interesting topics related to open and closed source AI. I have known Pramod and Sandeep for many years and they are both super sharp technologists. Pramod did a lot of early work in wireless networks and has published many novel papers in the crypto space (on scaling, networking, etc.). I first met Sandeep during the Augur days when we were working on Matic (now Polygon). I am very excited to see him leading Sentient. One of the great things about Founders Fund is that our partners and founders can have different perspectives, and we actually welcome that!
While I believe the pros of open source (even NATSEC-adjusted) outweigh the cons, I agree with the following that the economics of open source AI make no sense today. Software with high capex is very different than traditional software with low capex. If you spend $10 billion training a model, you can’t give it away for free. Our investment in Sentient aims to change that. They are trying to embed cryptography into their LMS (learning management system) so that if you don’t pay for the model, you can’t use it. They call it “model fidelity”. This way, the model can still be open source, but not actually be used without paying for it. An MVP of this model could be released using Nvidia’s recent TEE trusted hardware. A rough mental model is that Ethereum is open source, but not free to use, or something like DRM (digital rights management).
This is certainly a huge research challenge, but if they solve it, it could actually enable monetization of open source AI models. If you can monetize them, capitalist incentives may drive open source models that are stronger/smarter than the current paradigm.
Paul Veradittakit, Partner at Panteral Capital:
Sentient’s technology will pave the way for a new era of AI. By promoting an open source, community-governed approach to AGI, Sentient will enhance innovation, collaboration, and transparency. The goal is for Sentient to not only compete with existing AI solutions, but also redefine the standards for ethical AI development and deployment.
Dovey Wan, Founder at Primitive Ventures:
Monopolistic control of AI power will drive everyone to fight for data, model, and computational autonomy. Sentient will challenge incumbents and lead the d/acc movement. We are witnessing the convergence of several trends: binary code becomes currency code, machine programs become social contract programs, and human languages become programming languages. This convergence heralds the advent of a new era. Humanity needs to: embrace the principles of decentralization, transparency, and collective ownership.
Franklin Bi, Partner at Panteral Capital:
Let’s make sure Open AI beats OpenAI. In the long run, open systems outperform closed systems.
- Akinwumi, a senior official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), testified against Binance at a recent court hearing in Abuja, accusing the company of operating without a license in the country. During the questioning of Akinwummi by the prosecution led by EFCC consultant Ekele Iheanacho, Akinwumi stated that "the CBN has not issued any license to Binance." In addition, Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan faces money laundering charges. He was arrested by Nigerian authorities in February 2024 and was later released due to deteriorating health. During a previous hearing, he suddenly fell ill in court and was diagnosed with malaria. This prompted American politicians to lobby President Biden to release Gambaryan.
- It is so hot! Bumble Matcha Latte time is coming!
- @lens/0xmoe Thanks for the tip 🦋
- hitman
- Will tip one bonsai for everyone who mints this
- want to try cupping once, its comfortable
- A friend Rewi Alley once said, "There are two most beautiful towns in China, one is Fenghuang in Hunan and the other is Changting in Fujian." Changting is really beautiful now! It is worth a visit! !
- We need this GREEN (in market) now 💚 @lens/justchaos
- Bonsai🔥🔥🔥🔥
- GM Frens😮👏🤗😌🤩
- It's really nice to hang out all day near Deoksugung Palace.
Please go to Deoksugung Palace before it gets too hot… ..
- Thank you for your hard work, American shorthair baker
Kitten: You go to sleep first, I will sleep after I finish baking this pot😼
- Internet stress, the daily struggle 🛜
- Buenos Días Lens Cuba .
- My status be like..
- Gifts of the forest
- It is my first day on @club/lens @club/orb
Onboarding millions ❤️💞
I hope this will be fun ❤️🔥
- El mundo de los sueños
- Balcón al universo
Edición 3
- 🦋**"Qué difícil es utilizar la cabeza para los que hacemos todo desde el corazón".**
✨Buenos Días Comunidad ☀️
✨Image By ObiFly With AI
- going up⬆️
- Hello pointless
So any points on cosmos 🤔🤔
- 'shiva'
- Don’t hesitate to hit "Collect❤️" button anymore!
Now no one else can see what you’ve liked, so feel free to show all the love you want!
The more "Collect❤️"s, the more updates from me!💋
- Finally received the big labubu😘
- What's this?
- Go to a place without anyone
- Hey there
- tree
Geometric design
- “Marusovka” restaurant
- BIMPS NOOO
- Day 4: a calmer @lens/bimpster marks the path here
- I found your affirmation card.✨
- Matcha is the greatest drink in the world. 💚
- **Brainstorming Dream Home**
\-
3D illustration of a cute boy with colorful clouds, a house and flowers, head, an Asian girl, Natalia Rak and Ryo Takemasa, a spring scenery background with clouds, blue sky, drops, surreal, high
- Gm and gn
How my day always starts
- 虹って普通夜中には出ないけど… 夜空にあるとより映えるからいい表現だと思ってる！♪ How about rainbow in night sky? #髪でイメチェンサークル #AIgirl
- 夜空に虹と聞いて 色々勘違いするのが... る か ち w Rukachi_hime
- ちっちゃい仔象さんに跨って乗っってまぁすぁ…仔象さん…そんなに揺れちゃ…だめぇ…ちん…気持ちよくなってきちゃったちぃん…でも ぁ…仔象さん…そんなに揺れちゃ…だめぇ… 気持ちよくなってきちゃったちぃん…ぁ… こんなの…こんなのゾウニーちん…あぁだめ…ゾウニーがやめられないちぃん…
- 暑くてバテて動けない やる気スイッチを押してあげよっか 「もう土曜の夕方だよ( ᐛ )」 #AIart #ShigureMix
- **PLAY GAME**
@BONSAI🍎🍓🐱
😍😀Hi, everyone. I´m new to this. This platform is interesting with all its content.
- Hello this is my original character "Scrimblis The Tormented"
He is haunted by phantoms and mourns a log, please collect him and keep him close and closed within your wallet, so that he may gain refuge from the evils of the world.
- GM Frens! I'm still playing around with the clay stuff and made another character. I’m getting the feel for it now, so I think I know how to make that sword I posted earlier! 🤓
- SATURDAY $00
🟢247:420🟣
Live Chat at https://bloomers.tv/b0gie
-
- GM Frens 🔥🔥🔥
- City Blusher
📷 2023
*never published before
- If you like, mint and help me release a pretty special club ;)... A lot more to come xoxo
- Sentient: Top VCs rush to invest, with $85 million in seed round
What is Sentient?
According to the Sentient Foundation, Sentient is an AI research organization dedicated to building a new Open AGI economy for AI builders and creators. Sentient is building platforms and protocols that enable open source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and other innovations, (2) collaborate with each other to build powerful AI, and (3) become important stakeholders in the new Open AGI economy.
Sentient believes that closed source AI currently dominates the AI field, concentrating enormous power in a few organizations. Although open source AI exists, it lacks sufficient incentives for developers and its performance cannot match or even exceed that of closed source AI. Sentient envisions a future where AI development is open and transparent, and its access and monetization are decentralized.
From the information currently disclosed, Sentient has very few technical details and only some general ideas. Sentient will build an AI platform where AI developers are the main force and major participants. They build powerful AI products through innovation and collaboration, relying on the economic coordination provided by the underlying blockchain and incentive mechanism to achieve Open AGI. The AI models hosted on Sentient are "Open, Monetizable, and Loyal" (OML). OML models will drive the shared Open AGI economy and support downstream applications for millions of AI agents and billions of AI users.
According to Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon and founder of AggLayer, Sentient will be built on Polygon Agglayer.
Behind the Sentient team and founding
Looking through Sentient's official information, it can be found that the core figures of Sentient mainly include Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon and founder of AggLayer, Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, Pramod Viswanath, professor of Web3 at Princeton, and Himanshu Tyagi, professor of Indian Institute of Science (IISC).
They are the founders of the hugely successful star encryption projects (Polygon and EigenLayer) and well-known professors in academia, so it is very easy to understand why they have attracted huge bets from top VCs.
As Joey Krug, partner of Founders Fund, bluntly said, investing in Sentient is mainly an investment in the team.
Sandeep Nailwal talks about the origins of Sentient:
Not long ago, I was in Dubai with Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, to discuss my ideas about how encryption can solve the centralization and security problems of AI, and how Polygon can play a role in shaping this major shift in humanity. I told him, but what if AI models are loyal to their creator communities? He didn't laugh. Instead, he asked a lot of questions, and I explained my thought process to him. Finally, he said, this could be huge. He shared my thinking with Princeton professor Pramod Viswanath (who is the co-inventor of Flash OFDM, the technology behind the 4G wireless standard) and Himanshu Tyagi of the Indian Institute of Science (IISC), who were already working on something similar. Pramod said that this thinking could give birth to a whole new branch of AI+cryptography research and call it AI native cryptography. This research became Sentient.
It will be built on Polygon Agglayer, and I will help them as a core contributor. This project is very ambitious and model-fidelity, and it tries to solve a problem that has never been solved from this direction. With this financing, Sentient has attracted some of the best AI talents in the world, and the AI team is also working with senior talents from Google, Deepmind and other world-class AI companies. If successful, Sentient may change the relationship between humans and AI. Let's try to build it and see how it goes.
Why investors invest in Sentient
After Sentient officially announced that it had obtained seed round financing, the heads of various VCs involved in the investment also came out to publish articles to talk about the thinking behind investing in Sentient.
Tommy, co-founder of Delphi Digital and founding partner of Delphi Ventures:
The black-box authoritarian AI future is the enemy, and global, permissionless AI innovation is the goal. The Sentient team focuses on hosting open source models that can be audited and built by the whole world, but combined with cryptographic incentives to ensure that capital expenditure costs and value are protected, which is ambitious, but it will be very important if it is solved.
Framework Ventures:
We just co-led a round of $85 million in Sentient, an AI research organization that is building a new open AGI economy for AI builders and creators. Here are the reasons why we are happy to support this team.
The current state of AI is reminiscent of the closed-source software era in 1995. A few organizations dominate and concentrate huge power. Open source AI development exists, but there is a lack of sufficient incentives to allow developers to become equal stakeholders.
Sentient enables open source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and innovations, (2) collaborate to build powerful AI together, and (3) become key stakeholders in the new open AGI economy. We think this will be a game changer for the AI community.
Sentient is building an AI platform that relies on underlying blockchain protocols and incentives. AI models hosted on Sentient are “Open, Monetizable, and Loyal” (OML), meaning they are aligned with the community that built them and enforced by the blockchain.
Joey Krug, Partner at Founders Fund:
We invested in Sentient primarily as an investment in the team, but there are also some interesting topics related to open and closed source AI. I have known Pramod and Sandeep for many years and they are both super sharp technologists. Pramod did a lot of early work in wireless networks and has published many novel papers in the crypto space (on scaling, networking, etc.). I first met Sandeep during the Augur days when we were working on Matic (now Polygon). I am very excited to see him leading Sentient. One of the great things about Founders Fund is that our partners and founders can have different perspectives, and we actually welcome that!
While I believe the pros of open source (even NATSEC-adjusted) outweigh the cons, I agree with the following that the economics of open source AI make no sense today. Software with high capex is very different than traditional software with low capex. If you spend $10 billion training a model, you can’t give it away for free. Our investment in Sentient aims to change that. They are trying to embed cryptography into their LMS (learning management system) so that if you don’t pay for the model, you can’t use it. They call it “model fidelity”. This way, the model can still be open source, but not actually be used without paying for it. An MVP of this model could be released using Nvidia’s recent TEE trusted hardware. A rough mental model is that Ethereum is open source, but not free to use, or something like DRM (digital rights management).
This is certainly a huge research challenge, but if they solve it, it could actually enable monetization of open source AI models. If you can monetize them, capitalist incentives may drive open source models that are stronger/smarter than the current paradigm.
Paul Veradittakit, Partner at Panteral Capital:
Sentient’s technology will pave the way for a new era of AI. By promoting an open source, community-governed approach to AGI, Sentient will enhance innovation, collaboration, and transparency. The goal is for Sentient to not only compete with existing AI solutions, but also redefine the standards for ethical AI development and deployment.
Dovey Wan, Founder at Primitive Ventures:
Monopolistic control of AI power will drive everyone to fight for data, model, and computational autonomy. Sentient will challenge incumbents and lead the d/acc movement. We are witnessing the convergence of several trends: binary code becomes currency code, machine programs become social contract programs, and human languages become programming languages. This convergence heralds the advent of a new era. Humanity needs to: embrace the principles of decentralization, transparency, and collective ownership.
Franklin Bi, Partner at Panteral Capital:
Let’s make sure Open AI beats OpenAI. In the long run, open systems outperform closed systems.
- Akinwumi, a senior official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), testified against Binance at a recent court hearing in Abuja, accusing the company of operating without a license in the country. During the questioning of Akinwummi by the prosecution led by EFCC consultant Ekele Iheanacho, Akinwumi stated that "the CBN has not issued any license to Binance." In addition, Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan faces money laundering charges. He was arrested by Nigerian authorities in February 2024 and was later released due to deteriorating health. During a previous hearing, he suddenly fell ill in court and was diagnosed with malaria. This prompted American politicians to lobby President Biden to release Gambaryan.
- It is so hot! Bumble Matcha Latte time is coming!
- @lens/0xmoe Thanks for the tip 🦋
- hitman
- Will tip one bonsai for everyone who mints this
- want to try cupping once, its comfortable
- A friend Rewi Alley once said, "There are two most beautiful towns in China, one is Fenghuang in Hunan and the other is Changting in Fujian." Changting is really beautiful now! It is worth a visit! !
- We need this GREEN (in market) now 💚 @lens/justchaos
- Bonsai🔥🔥🔥🔥
- GM Frens😮👏🤗😌🤩
- It's really nice to hang out all day near Deoksugung Palace.
Please go to Deoksugung Palace before it gets too hot… ..
- Thank you for your hard work, American shorthair baker
Kitten: You go to sleep first, I will sleep after I finish baking this pot😼
- Internet stress, the daily struggle 🛜
- Buenos Días Lens Cuba .
- My status be like..
- Gifts of the forest
- It is my first day on @club/lens @club/orb
Onboarding millions ❤️💞
I hope this will be fun ❤️🔥
- El mundo de los sueños
- Balcón al universo
Edición 3
- 🦋**"Qué difícil es utilizar la cabeza para los que hacemos todo desde el corazón".**
✨Buenos Días Comunidad ☀️
✨Image By ObiFly With AI
- going up⬆️
- Hello pointless
So any points on cosmos 🤔🤔
- 'shiva'
- Don’t hesitate to hit "Collect❤️" button anymore!
Now no one else can see what you’ve liked, so feel free to show all the love you want!
The more "Collect❤️"s, the more updates from me!💋
- Finally received the big labubu😘