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As of now, most of you already know what is Sentient AGI @SentientAGI and what they want to achieve.
If anyone of you new to this, @SentientAGI (Sentient Labs) is building open-source Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to prevent control by any single entity. Their core infrastructure, **GRID** (Global Research and Intelligence Directory), is the world's largest open-source network of intelligence, a decentralized ecosystem uniting specialized AI agents, models, data sources, tools, frameworks, and compute resources to achieve AGI-level performance through collaboration.
As of September 2025, it includes over 110 partners across Web2 and Web3, emphasizing modularity, transparency, and community-driven innovation. Unlike monolithic closed-source systems, GRID acts as a "distributed brain," where lightweight components interoperate to scale efficiently and outperform single models at lower costs.
The purpose is to democratize AGI where builders contribute and monetize via a $SENT token economy, where users stake on valuable "artifacts" (e.g., agents or workflows), earning yields based on usage and expert validation. This sustains open-source development while rewarding high-impact contributions.
⚡ How Does GRID Work? (Orchestration and Query Processing)
GRID spans the full AI stack, with Sentient-built tools like ROMA and ODS serving as foundational frameworks.
GRID orchestrates intelligence via dynamic routing and coordination, treating the network as a composable graph where queries trigger parallel execution across components. It scales by distributing workloads, e.g., early tests show token-level routing beating closed-source labs on complex tasks at ~10x lower cost. Sentient Chat handles intake, while ROMA and ODS manage decomposition and synthesis. The architecture is modular: retrieval (e.g., ODS's Open Search Tool for query expansion/reranking) separates from reasoning (e.g., ODS-v2's CodeAct for precise tool calls), allowing swaps for optimization.
🤖 Step-by-Step Workflow
Query (e.g., "Analyze SaaS startups") → Intake/Classify in Chat → Decompose/route via ROMA (recursive tasks) or ODS (search+reasoning) → Agents execute in parallel (e.g., data pull + analysis) → Merge into cohesive output w/ citations. Scales like a distributed brain!
💻 How to join and get access?
To join it's testnet phase, you will need an invite code.
You can get the access code in their Discord server by participating in various events.
discord.gg/sentientfounda…
After getting an invite code, you can start using the Sentient GRID by going to this link:
chat.sentient.xyz
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