Another billion dollar aircraft carrier, does the cryptocurrency industry still need to rely on AI to save it? The seed round fundraising was completed in July last year, the functions were just completed in September this year, before the Binance market on November 14th, before the OKX opening on November 15th, and the airdrop checker was immediately launched on November 17th... Even veteran investors have rarely seen a large ship with such heavy tonnage and fast speed Too fast, almost to the point where most people still don't understand what Sentient really does. Let's dive in! ⬇️ From Sahara to Kite, top AI projects often follow top teams, and Sentient is no exception. I was quite shocked when I searched @ RootDataCrypto. Can you imagine that Pramod Viswanath, the inventor of the 4G LTE wireless network for mobile communication and a professor at Princeton University, the top ranked university in the United States, is a co-founder? In addition, members of top academic institutions such as the Indian Institute of Science, the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois have been recruited in large numbers, and I have also seen Polygon co-founder Sandeep emerge as a core contributor. To be precise, @ SentientAGI has an all-star team at the intersection of AI and blockchain, with 70% of its members being top tier AI researchers from the world's top research universities, large technology companies, and laboratories. In terms of investment institutions, it is even more magnificent, with Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pentera, and Framework leading the investment, and a group of top Eastern and Western capital following suit, such as Hack VC, IDG, Spartan, Mirana, etc. The seed round Sentient secured an investment of $85 million, and it must be said that the AI aircraft carrier is still too advanced. It's interesting that two familiar figures were found in the team and investors, one is the Asia Pacific GTM business manager @ Anita hityou, and the other is the investor @ -FORAB teacher. Congratulations in advance! / Top team, top capital, pre market FDV valuation of $5 billion, what exactly is Sentient doing? Is it really worth that much money? Simply put, Sentient's flagship is an open-source AI ecosystem, targeting giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The valuation of OpenAI is close to 1TB, Anthropic is around 100GB, and Pepperxity is also around 20GB. From this perspective, Sentient is not unreasonably expensive. It may be that we have overly examined it from the perspective of cryptocurrency projects. If we compare projects with the same concept in the cryptocurrency industry, the closest one is @ bittensor, which currently has a market value of over 3 billion and a maximum market value of 8 billion US dollars. Sentient is building an ecosystem with a similar approach to Bittensor, but with a higher value capture model that can bring stronger value accumulation to the protocol. Specifically, Sentient already has decentralized AGI with actual AI products available, and in the economic model, ecological projects can be directly funded through tokens. The protocol generates actual income, real users with voting rights, and a growing number of ecological projects. The positive flywheel has already started. At the product level, Sentient's open-source AGI operating system has shown initial success. GRID is the world's largest artificial intelligence network, with over 100 models, intelligent agents, data, and research institutions running on it; ROMA is a recursive open meta agent, an open-source meta agent framework used to build high-performance multi-agent systems. In Seal-0 testing, ROMA Search achieved an accuracy of 45.6%, far exceeding models such as ChatGPT and Grok, and has become the most advanced system currently available. To sum up, Sentient is the largest open-source AI ecosystem, with products covering intelligent agents, data, models, computing, and verifiable AI, as well as multiple academic studies currently underway. With powerful products and industry resources, we now have over 100 partners spanning Web2 and Web3, which is terrifyingly strong. Sentient will soon have TGE, and we hope to have a good performance in the current market. After all, Sentient is an existence that transcends cycles, blessings. / Author: Anymose | A Soft Core Science Popularization Writer This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice. Always remember DYOR!