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- The salary has been paid.
I decided to turn the fan on to third gear tonight.
- Within the depths of my being, sincerity blooms like a delicate flower, pure and unyielding.
- I always felt that I had a good personality until I met someone with the same personality as me, and I really wanted to kick it.
- In the mirror of my heart, self-love dances with pure delight.
- 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.
- Don't cry in front of my grave, it's dirty my wheel.
- According to Beosin Alert monitoring and early warning, the total loss caused by hacker attacks, phishing scams and project party Rug Pull in the Web3 field in the first half of 2024 reached 1.54 billion US dollars. Among them, there were 78 major attacks with a total loss of about 1.193 billion US dollars; 64 project party Rug Pull incidents with a total loss of about 119 million US dollars; the total loss of phishing scams was about 232 million US dollars.
In the first half of 2024, there were 3 security incidents with a loss of more than 100 million US dollars. The total loss in May reached 450 million US dollars, which was the month with the highest loss in the first half of 2024.
In terms of the types of attacked projects, the type of project with the highest loss was CEX. The 4 attacks on CEX caused a total loss of about 392 million US dollars, accounting for 32.8% of all attack losses.
In terms of the loss amount of each chain, Ethereum is still the chain with the highest loss amount and the most attack incidents. 32 attacks on Ethereum caused a loss of $470 million, accounting for 39.4% of the total losses.
In terms of attack methods, there were 22 private key leaks in the first half of the year, causing losses of $894 million, accounting for about 75% of the total attack losses, which is the highest proportion of attack types.
In terms of capital flow, about $470 million (39.3%) of stolen funds were frozen or recovered. This ratio has increased significantly compared to 2023.
Of the 78 attacks in the first half of the year, 43 still came from contract vulnerability exploits. It is recommended that project parties seek audits from professional security companies before going online.
- You can buy more useless things. In this way, you are not the most useless.
- There are no poor people in the world. If you spend more money, you will become poor."
- Although I used to be poor, I was very happy. Now it's different. I'm not only poor, but also unhappy.
- There are two eggs under the eyebrows
- I'm in a bad mood when I'm fat, I'm in a bad temper when I'm hungry, and I'm in a bad mood when I'm poor. What can I do?
- MONEY
- flower
- 搞得着了
- smlie
- sending love and light
- 生活出卖了我
- 哇呀
- is deposit crypto to your orb balance working for you?
unsure if it’s just me.
- 离别的人呀，我 敬你一杯酒
- I have entered the AI contest. Please press like at the URL below.
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- Day 48 of 365
#365daysdrawingchallenge #art #freehandsketch
I will tip 10 people 10 00 each 👌
Courtesy of @lens/p00ls
- 帅
- A nighttime landscape image of a Super Blue Moon rising up from the horizon.
- SO HAPPY
- 寸金难买寸光阴
- 附近8个县
- GM ✌🏾😌✌🏾
Whether you're building or touching grass, I'm rooting for you 🫵🏾
- What is the biggest threat to Earth?
- High ceiling home.
- 漂亮的晚霞
- Mission is going on！
- Predict the next #crypto that could do this
- Greenhorn bounty hunter and his subsequent fate
- Name the next superstar project in Web3
- 发现一头小可爱
- Hubble Telescope view of the stunning spiral galaxy known as the Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
- Amazing ,it's beuterful
- Puglia, Italy.
- Puglia, Italy.
- I can empathize with Pluto, my , especially since I just led a three-hour workshop for moderators in self-help organizations. Successful but exhausting...
Actually, it doesn't matter at all how one is seen by the masses! What matters are the closest friends and staying true to oneself, no matter what...
That Pluto probably has something to learn there. I believe that to live well, one must love oneself as they are and then unfold their own potential...
especially because it differs from everyone else...
I find it beautiful Neptune and Pluto are such inseparable friends, and above all, their honest communication is truly endearing and supportive. This is a friendship not only for laughter but for life.
- We’re going to Netflix
We’re going to Disney
going to onboard the masses
Building a universe
It was the devs fault
We’re here for the long term
It’s about the art
- The problem with “Great Replacement Theory” is that it fails to address the foundational issue of low birth rates.
Record low birth rates are leading to population collapse in Europe and even faster population collapse in most of Asia. Immigration is low in Asia, so there is no “replacement” going on, the countries are simply shrinking away.
If this doesn’t turn around, then any countries on Earth with low birth rates will become empty of people and fall into ruin, like the remains we see of the many long dead civilizations.
- While the $BONSAI is cheaper today 🔥👇
- 🎧 🦝 🎧
- 美好的生活，就像夏天的微风，悄然而至，轻轻拂过面颊，留下的是舒心的清凉。
- 美好的生活，就像夏天的微风，悄然而至，轻轻拂过面颊，留下的是舒心的清凉。