{"id":6624,"date":"2025-02-20T07:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:48:39","slug":"peter-thiels-fund-leads-85m-seed-round-in-sentient-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/peter-thiels-fund-leads-85m-seed-round-in-sentient-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel\u2019s Fund Leads $85M Seed Round in Sentient AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6624\" class=\"elementor elementor-6624\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-624d676d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"624d676d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5b01699e\" data-id=\"5b01699e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-309872b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"309872b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News0219.05.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News0219.05.png 815w, https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News0219.05-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News0219.05-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/acudc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News0219.05-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d5cd177 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d5cd177\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h2><!-- wp:list --><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul><!-- wp:list-item --><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The launch of Sentient\u2019s testnet is scheduled within this quarter, marking a significant step towards achieving its goals.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund, alongside Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures, has led an $85 million seed investment in Sentient, an open-source AI development platform. This substantial funding aims to boost Sentient\u2019s capabilities in fostering an ecosystem where AI developers can profit from their open-source models and data.<\/p>\n<p>Evolving Open-Source AI<\/p>\n<p>Sentient\u2019s initiative is a direct response to the current dominance of closed-source AI systems, which concentrate power among a few major entities. By enhancing the open-source landscape, Sentient seeks to provide AI developers with the necessary incentives to become significant stakeholders in their creations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strategic Backing and Future Plans<\/p>\n<p>The investment round also saw participation from a wide range of venture capitals such as Robot Ventures, Symbolic Capital, and others, underscoring the broad industry support for decentralizing AI development. Sentient plans to utilize the funds to hire more engineers and further develop its AI platform.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of Sentient\u2019s testnet is scheduled within this quarter, marking a significant step towards achieving its goals.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Sentient is pioneering a blockchain protocol to align economic incentives for developers, aiming to address the challenges of model and data monetization in the open-source community.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Krug of Founders Fund emphasized the platform\u2019s potential to resolve the prevailing issue where open-source creations can be used without compensation. This development could significantly alter the landscape of AI development, providing a sustainable model for open innovations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Retrieved from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptotimes.io\/2024\/07\/02\/peter-thiels-fund-leads-85m-seed-round-in-sentient-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.cryptotimes.io\/2024\/07\/02\/peter-thiels-fund-leads-85m-seed-round-in-sentient-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acudc.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}