Sentient Foundation Commits $42 Million to Advance Open Source AGI
Summary
Sentient Foundation has launched a $42 million Open Source AGI Grant and Investment Program. The program will provide non-dilutive grants to researchers, maintainers, and public-goods projects, and founder-friendly investments to startups building commercial businesses around open-source AI. The foundation wants to keep critical AI infrastructure, models, tools, and applications openly accessible. Applications are open now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Funding
Amount
$42.0M
Total raised
Date
June 24, 2026
Announcement date
Investors
Alibaba Cloud, Princeton eLab, Franklin Templeton Investments, Indian Institute of Science
Lead investors
Company
sentient.foundation
Funded company
Classifications
industries
No industries detected
applications
Business Intelligence
AskAI Classifications
Labels
Cloud Computing
SaaS
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Linked Companies
Alibaba Cloud
up to $1M
Sentient Foundation
up to $1M