Sentient is an open-source AI reasoning lab. We build frontier open-source research and products that enable AI systems to reason, reflect, learn, and self-improve.

Sentient Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to building open-source AGI, independent of single-entity control.

Sentient is a decentralized protocol building the GRID — the world’s first open and community-built AGI network. Our mission is to transform today's closed and fragmented AI landscape into an open, collaborative ecosystem, ensuring that advanced intelligence truly serves all of humanity.

Our thesis is that AGI will not emerge as a single, monolithic brain, but rather a collection of specialized intelligences working together. The GRID facilitates this collaboration by weaving together a constantly growing library of AI components to achieve intelligence at the AGI level.

The core components of the GRID are Artifacts, which are modular, composable units of intelligence, such as models, agents, data sources, and tools, contributed by our community of builders. Users access the GRID through Sentient Chat, a universal interface for discovering, composing, and coordinating AI artifacts. Every query triggers a coordinated workflow, chaining multiple agents, search, data sources, and tools across the GRID to produce the best possible results.

Today, the GRID is already onboarding a broad set of artifacts with 100+ partners integrated, including Sentient-built components like Dobby (the first model loyal to crypto), Model Fingerprinting Library (embedding custom values and capabilities directly into models), Open Deep Search Library, and ROMA (a meta-agent framework).

The economic engine of the GRID is the $SENT token, it provides the concrete justification for builders to contribute and for the community to curate the best content. The token economy is designed to:

Incentivize contribution: Builders can monetize their creations, plugging their Artifacts into the GRID to serve user requests and earn rewards. Drive quality: Community members stake tokens on valuable GRID participants to direct rewards and earn yield. To ensure the most useful contributions rise to the top, these rewards are guided by real-world metrics like product usage, revenue and votes from AI experts.

SENT is the coordination layer for Sentient. It powers the chain, the GRID, and the incentive systems that reward positive work advancing our pursuit of open-source AGI.