What is Sentient

Sentient is building the world’s first open and community-built AGI—competing directly with the closed AGI systems developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others.

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The Problem

Sentient addresses the most urgent risk of our time: closed-source AGI. Today, a few companies are building AGI in secret, deciding what it knows, how it thinks, and who it serves. AGI is the most powerful technology ever created—if controlled by corporations, it could lock humanity’s future into the hands of a few. This is a fundamental threat to society.

Sentient will be an open alternative, built and owned by the community, ensuring that AI will always be loyal to humanity.

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Solution: Open and Community-Built AGI

Sentient is building open-source AGI that serves everyone. Our thesis is that AGI is a network of specialized intelligences: models with different skills, knowledge, and values, plus agents that act on them. Whether they’re built by Sentient or the community, these models and agents form Sentient AGI: the first open and community-built general intelligence.

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Ecosystem: How Open-Source AGI Will Find Distribution and Monetize

Users want the best AI tools, and AI tools are looking for access to users. Sentient Chat bridges this gap by serving as both a premier distribution and coordination platform, connecting specialized AI agents and models directly with the users seeking them.

With Sentient Chat, users access top-tier AI capabilities—including advanced search, specialized agents, and powerful models—all integrated seamlessly within one unified platform. This open ecosystem not only simplifies user experience but also amplifies collective intelligence, as insights and capabilities compound across interconnected agents and models, flowing to the end user.

Crucially, Sentient Chat is a self-sustaining community ecosystem. Users pay for premium access to Sentient Chat and agent ecosystems, and revenue generated from this engagement flows directly back to the creators and innovators who contribute to the platform. In this way, Sentient ensures a cycle of innovation, distribution, and value creation, empowering both users and AI builders alike.

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How Does Sentient Compare to Other AI Companies

To understand the space and Sentient’s potential, one must understand two dimensions of AI: openness and revenue potential/utility. Sentient is the only project that is open, community-owned, with high utility and revenue potential, maximizing these two dimensions and making it one of the biggest opportunities in AI. Bittensor is open and community-owned but low in utility and revenue. Perplexity, Anthropic, and OpenAI are closed, high-revenue/high-utility platforms. DeepSeek is open-source, but not community-owned or community-built.