The Sentient Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that Artificial General Intelligence is open-source and never controlled by a single entity, safeguarding its alignment with humanity.
The Foundation oversees The GRID, the world’s largest open intelligence network, uniting agents, models, data, and compute from 110+ partners.
Backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Pantera, and Framework, Sentient Foundation is building the open, aligned future of AGI — just as Linux became the backbone of the internet.
Operating as a nonprofit steward of the open AGI ecosystem, with neutrality and transparency at its core.
Growing the ecosystem by promoting global adoption of open-source AGI by engaging top AI researchers, academic institutions, thought leaders, and governments as ambassadors and advisors. The Sentient Foundation distributes grants, coordinates governance frameworks, and supports the open-source developer community worldwide.
Championing alignment and safety standards, ensuring AGI evolves with humanity’s values and oversight while leading public outreach to position open-source AGI as the inevitable long-run winner — following the precedent of Linux, Apache, Android, and other open movements.