Sentient, an open-source AI development platform, has raised $85 million in seed funding led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, with contributions from Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures. This funding will help recruit engineers and advance Sentient’s open AI platform, as announced on July 2. Sentient aims to empower AI developers to monetize their open-source models and data, drawing parallels to ecosystems like the Super Intelligence Alliance. The company noted, “We are in an era reminiscent of the 1995 closed-source software landscape. “At present, the dominance of closed-source AI has centralized immense power with a few organizations. Although open-source AI development
