Sentient Foundation 近日推出 4200 万美元开源 AGI 资助计划,支持研究人员、开发者和初创公司。计划设两个轨道:无需股权或成果索取的资助,以及面向将开源 AI 商业化的公司的投资。申请无需全部开源,只要求至少一个关键部分开放。评审标准包括技术质量、生态价值、开放性和长期潜力。该计划与阿里云、Franklin Templeton、普林斯顿大学和印度科学研究所合作,旨在保持 AGI 开放、去中心化并符合人类利益。
Sentient Foundation just launched a $42M open-source AGI funding program to back researchers, developers, and startups building advanced AI outside closed corporate stacks.
The program has 2 tracks: grants with no equity and no claim on the work, and investments for companies turning open-source AI into commercial products while keeping openness central.
Projects can qualify without open-sourcing everything, as long as at least one essential part is open, useful, and important to adoption.
The review standard is technical quality, ecosystem value, openness, and long-term potential, which makes the program more like infrastructure funding than charity.