Overview - Sentient is developing a better Bittensor by funding AI products through token issuance mechanisms, which in turn generate actual revenue for the protocol [1] - The company aims to create a decentralized AGI ecosystem with real products, users, utility, and revenue streams [1] Technological Advancement - Sentient's research has surpassed closed-source AI labs with only 1/10th of the funding [1] - The ROMA framework has outperformed Perplexity and Gemini 2.5, becoming the number one trending repository on GitHub [1] - The ODS system has outperformed GPT-4o mini and DeepSeek [1] Investment and Team - Sentient is backed by Founders Fund, the same fund that invested in OpenAI, and is one of their only 10 AI investments to date [1] - The company has assembled a top-tier team in the "AI + Crypto" space, with 70% being open-source AGI researchers aiming to surpass OpenAI [1][2]