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Sentient Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to open-source AGI, free from single-entity control. Advancing the future through @SentientAGI.
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Our SF Tech Week happy hour at Novela, led by our Director of Events & Community @its_mils_, was one for the books 📚
Thanks to @WithAmpersand, @rootlyhq, @gauge_sh, and all the builders who stopped by to share notes on enterprise agents and open-source AGI!
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Models cost millions to train and minutes to copy. Fine-tuning and distillation can erase where they came from.
Introducing the Fingerprinting Leaderboard, an open benchmark for model provenance — built so the proof lives in the weights, not the paperwork.
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AI is the first copyable medium with no model provenance:
So when distillation and copying happens, nobody can prove the model belongs to them ↓
Lexicographers planted words that did not exist.
Mapmakers drew streets that led nowhere.
Artists placed hidden signatures inside the work itself.
Long before AI, creators had ways to catch copying to prove provenance ↓
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Agents are already acting on our behalf, but there's still no standard to verify what model they're powered by.
@TheStreet breaks down the AI agent identity problem with Sentient Foundation's Director of Venture and Growth @0xsachi.
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Frontier AI labs want to pace the frontier, but open-source AI never got the memo.
@Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops open weights 45x cheaper than Opus 5, @NASA drops an open model for lunar science, and EvoSkill gets 60+ citations from MIT, Google, and more.
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There's a signature hidden in this painting.
Not in the corner, not on the edges, but in the portrait itself.
Can you find it?
Raffi Krikorian wrote that AI agents are scanning the open-source code that holds up the entire internet, finding bugs that have sat there for decades.
A lot of people hear that and say we need to restrict access to these AI tools.
Raffi thinks that's exactly the wrong response.
Full episode:
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Raffi Krikorian's Tesla crashed on full self-driving. His insurance paid for it. Not Tesla's.
That's one of the stories from our conversation with Mozilla's CTO on why we've all become renters of the technology we depend on.
If full transcripts and show notes are your thing, we've got a Substack for that:
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Altman, Amodei, and Musk agree frontier AI needs oversight, but AI safety shouldn’t be decided by a handful of evaluators.
Open source distributes that power: more people can inspect, test, and challenge AI systems.
Safety should be verifiable by many, not permissioned by a few.
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"A system that works almost perfectly is the most dangerous thing we've built."
@raffi, CTO of @mozilla, on where your brain and agency go when the AI you're using is built to be on someone else's side and not yours.
Full episode on @opencommonspod :
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Chip giant @nvidia buys @huggingface for $12.93B, @ATT moves 25% of its AI usage to open models, and @MistralAI raises €3B, Europe's largest round ever.
The money is moving to open-source AI ↓
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The best teams don’t come from the same background.
@Jwalin_shah joined as an engineer, teamed up with researchers, and together they broke the top 6 ↓
The moat is not the model. It is the engineering around it.
Franklin Templeton's report on open-source pricing pressure highlights @SentientAGI’s EvoSkill and a growing challenge for closed AI:
Better skills and harnesses extract significantly more performance from cheaper open models.
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What was Tarun's favorite part about the Arena?
Turns out there were three: the challenge, the environment, and his team ↓
Community adoption pushes @Alibaba_Qwen to release its best model yet, @OpenAI turns Codex into an agent development platform, and @nvidia invests $6B to compete with Chinese AI.
Developers are shifting to open-source AI, and the labs are following ↓
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Open source became the backbone for computer operating systems — now it's coming for AI.
Happy 35th birthday @linuxfoundation 🐧
Can AI reason?
Alfie's answer: not on a human level yet. But when models test themselves and challenge one another, they get closer.
Open source AI runs on builders who think like this ↓
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There is no O'Malley Street in San Francisco, just O'Farrell.
Mapmakers have done this for nearly a century to catch copycats.
In 2001, the UK's national mapping agency caught the Automobile Association copying its maps, leading to a £20 million settlement.
Copy the map. Copy the clue.
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🗺️ Can You Find the Street That Doesn't Exist?
Somewhere on this map of Union Square, San Francisco, is a street we made up.
One fake road. Hidden inside a real neighborhood.
Slipped in where it almost looks like it belongs.
Can you find it?
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🏆 What's at stake?
The sharpest detectives who spot the fake street will earn a limited-time BEST OF AUGUST role and could be featured by @sentient_found on X.
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How to play:
Drop your guess in the thread below
Then join the hunt live on X!!
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Study the map carefully. Something is off 👀
@SentientAGI 🤌
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This is a map of Union Square, San Francisco.
Hidden somewhere on it is a street you’ll never be able to walk down, because we made it up.
Can you find the fake street we slipped into a real neighborhood?
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