San Francisco, California, February 6th, 2025,
Chainwire
Sentient has completed one of the biggest-ever minting campaigns
in the history of crypto with 650,000 participants. The mint offers
participants the opportunity to gain partial ownership of Dobby,
the world's first Loyal AI model, through the distribution of an
NFT. With the NFT, users can later claim model ownership and model
fingerprints.
Sentient's groundbreaking engagement rate coincides with the
rise of DeepSeek, an AI model rivaling OpenAI's performance while
being built on a $6M budget and minimal GPUs.
Open-source and efficient enough to run on smartphones, DeepSeek's
debut has fueled market turbulence, impacting AI stocks and crypto
tokens.
Sentient's innovative fingerprinting technology represents a
breakthrough in AI model training and ownership. These unique
digital signatures enable communities to verify model identity and
enforce ownership over openly distributed models. The launch
follows Sentient’s completion of an $85 million seed round co-led by Peter
Thiel's Founders Fund.
Fingerprinting a model embeds a query response pair directly
into the AI model. The same fingerprinted query will always have
the same response by the AI model, this helps the community
identify the model and call out any illegitimate use. Sentient has
created this tamper-resistant mechanism to prove the legitimacy of
use and prevent misappropriation. The fingerprinting campaign
advances Sentient’s vision of Loyal AI: artificial intelligence
that is fully decentralized and community-controlled.
While other companies focus on AI agents, Sentient prioritizes
core decentralization and open-source models. By embedding loyalty
into the AI "brain", Sentient ensures alignment with the
communities' principles, building trust and integrity at the
foundation.
Participants in the fingerprinting campaign will share ownership
of Dobby, Sentient’s debut Loyal AI model. The distributed NFT will
allow users to claim model ownership and model fingerprints. These
fingerprints act as keys to the model’s unique identity, enabling
holders to verify legitimate use and enforce ownership. The
campaign sets a precedent for decentralizing the power and control
of advanced AI systems.
Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon founder and Sentient core contributor,
said: “When AGI or ASI emerges it should be community-controlled
and community-owned to guarantee its loyalty. Sentient’s
fingerprinting mechanism allows communities to enforce ownership,
control and alignment of open-source AI models. This incentivizes
communities to come together and build high quality open-source
models. In the long run, the goal is to make sure that instead of
some large institution having exclusive control over a
closed-source AGI, AGI is open-source and owned by everyone
individually and collectively.”
To claim the NFT, participants must prove both their humanity
and intelligence by passing a randomized IQ test. This rigorous
minting process, which attracted over 650,000 participants, has
already made history as one of the largest NFT campaigns ever by
user engagement. Beyond ownership, these NFTs grant users exclusive
access to the fingerprinted model, creating a direct link between
the community and the AI they’ve helped shape.
Sentient’s mission extends far beyond Dobby. As the organization
redefines the future of AI, it remains steadfast in its belief that
the current trajectory of centralized, corporate-controlled AI
development is unsustainable. Sentient’s vision for Loyal AI
challenges this status quo, championing a transparent,
community-driven approach to artificial general intelligence
(AGI).
Updates on the fingerprinting campaign will be shared on
Sentient’s X account and Discord.
About Sentient
Sentient is pioneering a new era in AI, empowering communities
to create Loyal AI that is community-built, community-aligned, and
community-owned. As a non-profit committed to advancing open-source
AI technologies and building a decentralized, transparent
ecosystem, Sentient champions an Open AI economy where AI builders
are key stakeholders. With AGI on the horizon, its mission is to
ensure it serves humanity, not corporations.
Learn more: https://sentient.foundation/
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