Connections worth 85 million? A brief analysis of the hugely funded AI project Sentient led by Polygon Lianchuang

Author: Deep Wave TechFlow

AI’s need for encryption has yet to be discussed, but the encryption world seems to be inseparable from the storytelling of AI.

"No AI, no encryption" has become a representative phenomenon of this cycle. And as of now, the more stories about AI are told, the more people are buying it.

On July 2, the open source AI collaboration platform Sentient announced an investment of US$85 million, led by top VCs such as Founders Fund, Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures, and followed by Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, etc. Another wave of huge financing.

In this "atypical bull market", this huge seed round of financing is extremely dazzling. The last phenomenal AI money-making king can be traced back to Bittensor?

Is this Sentient something good or is it just another wave of money-making hype? Let’s decipher it.

An AI “trailer” co-produced by China and India?

According to Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal’s tweet, the birth of Sentient originated from a conversation between him and EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan about the future development of encryption and AI. Later, Sreeram Kannan shared this conversation with Princeton University professor Pramod Viswanath (co-inventor of 4G wireless standard support technology Flash OFDM) and Indian Institute of Science and Technology professor Himanshu Tyagi. The results coincided with their research. The collision of ideas led to the official launch of Sentient.

What’s interesting is that 3 of the 4 core contributors to the project are Indians. Among the investors, there are also several Chinese-founded institutions. China and India are jointly setting up a business to do big things. ?

We have money and people, so what does this China-India co-produced “AI blockbuster” plan to do in this crypto AI cycle?

We have looked through the materials of the project, and we can only say that this Sino-Indian co-production has not yet arrived, and is still in the trailer stage.

Let open source last longer

The current AI technology is monopolized by a few corporate organizations, and the development of open source AI really lacks enough incentives for developers, and with the development of AI, open source developers They have no long-term benefits to provide support. At the same time, if you want to achieve better development results, you also need open source contribution cooperation among developers. It can be seen that the development status of open source AI is more difficult than imagined, let alone trying to compete with the powerful AI in the hands of monopoly organizations.

Yes, AI should be open source and free, but if the result of insisting on open source is not enough to eat, then the "anti-monopoly" matter must be put aside later.

Sentient officially calls itself the "Open AGI Foundation" and its goal is to promote AI innovation through a community-driven approach.

To this end, Sentient plans to build an AI platform based on Polygon Agglayer for developers to collaborate and monetize their development contributions. Developers can quickly collaborate through the platform and monetize their contributions. By stimulating developers, Open AGI can develop better and further.

OML model

In order to realize the platform concept of "protecting the world and making everyone happy", Sentient launched a special managed AI model "OML", namely Open (open), Monetizable (monetizable) and Loyal ( Loyalty)

This framework is designed to ensure that the platform maintains openness, monetization capabilities, and loyalty to the community while supporting developer use.

Roadmap

Sentient test network will be launched this quarter, and Sentient’s plan for the short, medium and long-term development path is listed in the official introduction document. The short- and medium-term goals are to collaborate with the community on the Sentient AI platform (carrying out the first community activities), develop on-chain protocols, build ecosystems, and formulate OML model standards. The long-term goals focus on AI models built through community collaboration, an open AGI future powered by OML, and stimulating innovation for AI developers.

Conclusion

Sentient has a great background and a good idea, but many Web3 AI projects are doing such things as contribution incentives and ownership rights, and Sentient is not the first to mention it. Moreover, with such a huge amount of financing, only a few people paid attention to this project before. Now Sentient is still at a stage where no products have been launched.

As for why many institutions are willing to invest so much money in Sentient, which is still in the whiteboard stage, it may be out of trust in "Sandeep takes the lead". After all, in such an atypical bull market, the money in hand is not as good as investing in something that has Where the story has a background, the combination of AI+Polygon should also have an explanation for investors, right? After all, as the plates get bigger, it will definitely not be the VC himself who pays for the feast.

After experiencing several rounds of so-called king-level projects, it seems that the path to invest in crypto projects is to invest in people, and to do projects is to organize the team;

You can’t evaluate whether this is a kind of "making money in the upper reaches of the industry" The same method as "Breathing is as Simple" is still a courageous and resourceful person who truly sees the technological trend and dares to bet.

However, as long as the market pulls up, it is justice and the future, and as long as it falls, it is a scam and air.

センティエントは今後どこまで「AIの持続的発展と建設従事者保護の向上」に取り組むのか、他社との差別化を図り、限られた注意力​​でユーザーを獲得できるのか、一緒に注目していきましょう。 。

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