Sentient AI, backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, has launched an open source AGI platform that enables collaborative agents to challenge closed ecosystems dominated by OpenAI and AWS.
San Francisco-based Sentient AI has launched an open source Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) network aimed at challenging proprietary ecosystems led by OpenAI and AWS.
The platform integrates AI agents, models, and data sources on a single open system, allowing multiple agents to collaborate in real-time, share context, and execute complex workflows. It is accessible via Sentient Chat, which opened today for its 2 million waitlisted users.
Positioned as the largest open collection of AI agents, models, and data sources, Sentient’s platform introduces economic rails that reward developers for the value they create. This open, collaborative approach seeks to break the siloes that characterise existing agent marketplaces.
“Sentient brings together the largest open collection of AI agents, models, and data sources, and the economic rails to make them work at scale,” said Himanshu Tyagi, Co-founder of Sentient AI.
He added, “AWS’s $200 million defense contract shows there’s demand for agent marketplaces, but those agents remain siloed, unable to share context or coordinate. Rather than working in isolation, agents collaborate through Spaces to deliver complex, integrated answers, and every developer is rewarded for the value their contributions create.”
The company has raised $85 million in seed funding from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures, and is currently valued at $1.2 billion.
By offering an open source AGI platform with built-in collaboration and developer incentives, Sentient positions itself as a decentralised, community-driven alternative to closed systems, seeking to redefine how intelligent agents scale and interact.
