Sentient Foundation
Sentient Foundation is a neutral, transparent steward of the open AGI ecosystem. It supports open-source artificial intelligence that is aligned with humanity and not controlled by a single entity through research support, grants, governance, safety and alignment work, and global outreach.
At a Glance
- AI researchers and academics
- Open-source engineers and maintainers
- Independent developers and public-goods builders
- Startups and companies building commercial open-AI products
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AI Tools by Sentient Foundation
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ROMA: Recursive Open Meta-Agents
Open Source Multi Agent Framework
Sentient Foundation
Open Source Multi-Agent Framework
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Latest News
Sentient Foundation Commits $42 Million to Advance Open Source AGI
Sentient Foundation Launches as Global Nonprofit to Ensure AGI Remains Open-Source and Aligned with Humanity
Open AGI Summit announced for builders, founders, and researchers
Be the Sparks, Ignite with Sentient Sparks
Products & Services
A $42 million program combining no-equity grants for researchers, maintainers, independent developers, and public goods with founder-friendly investments for commercial open-AI companies.
A community contributor program that provides access, incentives, direct contact with the core team, events, previews, and amplification to selected global and regional contributors.
Public forums and regional events for builders, researchers, founders, universities, and communities to discuss open-source AI, alignment, safety, governance, and decentralized intelligence.
An open-source meta-agent framework created within the Sentient ecosystem for building hierarchical, recursive, multi-agent systems through atomization, planning, execution, aggregation, and verification. The repository is available on GitHub and the Python package is installable as roma-dspy.
Market Position
Sentient Foundation positions itself as a neutral, transparent, Linux-like steward of open AGI, differentiated from closed AI labs that control models and access. It also distinguishes itself from purely commercial decentralized-AI projects by combining open-source research support, governance, safety and alignment work, grants, community building, and global advocacy.
Leadership
Founders
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Polygon Labs (MATIC). A prominent Web3 entrepreneur and investor.
Pramod Viswanath
Forrest G. Hamrick Professor of Engineering at Princeton University. Expert in decentralized systems, blockchain, and information theory. Co-inventor of Flash-OFDM.
Himanshu Tyagi
Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Specialist in information theory, cryptography, and decentralized AI.
Executive Team
Sachi Kamiya
Director of Venture and Growth
Founding member of Polygon Ventures, where she led a $100 million ecosystem fund and spearheaded a $500 million raise; investor at Symbolic Capital, angel investor, advisor, and Caltech electrical-engineering graduate.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
The Foundation launched in February 2026 in response to concern that increasingly capable AI systems were being developed and controlled by private corporations. Its initial vision was to provide a Linux-like, neutral institution for open-source AGI by supporting researchers, developers, institutions, governance frameworks, and public advocacy.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The Foundation is a nonprofit rather than a conventional commercial company. Its public operating model is ecosystem support through no-equity grants, founder-friendly investments, partnerships, events, and community programs; it does not state a commercial revenue model.
Target Markets
- AI researchers and academics
- Open-source engineers and maintainers
- Independent developers and public-goods builders
- Startups and companies building commercial open-AI products
- Universities, labs, and independent collectives
- Artists and thinkers exploring consciousness, intelligence, and human-machine co-creation
- Funding open-source AGI research and public goods
- On-device and private AI for underserved users
- Emergency guidance without network access
- Scam detection and deepfake or misinformation defense
- Personalized education and local-language tutoring
- Agricultural supply-chain and market-price tools for smallholder farmers
- Tsinghua University
- Jiaotong University