Sentient Drops Open Deep Search: A Game-Changer in AI That's Shaking Up Perplexity

Hold onto your hats, folks! Sentient, with the muscle of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund behind it, just unleashed Open Deep Search (ODS), an open-source AI beast that's outsmarting Perplexity at its own game. This isn't just another tech drop; it's a full-throttle push to bring cutting-edge AI to the masses and supercharge web3 innovation. And guess what? Their Sentient Chat is already on fire with a whopping 1.75 million folks itching to get in!

Straight out of San Francisco, these decentralized AI wizards at Sentient threw down the gauntlet with ODS on April 2. This isn't your run-of-the-mill search tool; it's the first open-source AI search to smoke Perplexity and Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro in the performance ring, crushing it in FRAMES and SimpleQA benchmarks.

The buzz started at the Open AGI Summit during ETH Denver, where over 1,500 crypto and AI brains got their first taste of this tech. Sentient's platform isn't just playing around—it's flexing with top-notch multi-step reasoning and factual query chops, setting ODS up as the David ready to take on the Goliaths of AI search.

Sentient Labs, the masterminds behind ODS, were birthed by none other than ex-Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. They kicked off with a bang, pulling in $85 million in seed cash, with heavy hitters Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures leading the charge, alongside Thiel’s Founders Fund.

Himanshu Tyagi, co-founder of Sentient, didn't mince words: "The release of Open Deep Search is a mega milestone in our mission to throw open the doors to AI for everyone. We’re not just challenging the closed-source bigwigs like Perplexity; we’re giving devs the keys to a powerful tool that lets them dream up the apps they’ve always wanted."

Scaling Access Through Sentient Chat

Get ready, because ODS is about to turbocharge Sentient Chat, their slick AI chatbot for the masses. They're starting with a select group of early testers, then rolling out weekly updates like clockwork, all leading up to a full-blown public launch in the next couple of months.

And here's the kicker: despite not swimming in cash like some of the big AI players, Sentient crafted ODS on a shoestring with decentralized magic. They're proving that you don't need a mountain of money to stand toe-to-toe with the centralized AI giants.

"ODS is our proof that open-source AI can go head-to-head with the closed-source tech in reasoning and search," Sentient declared in their release. Buckle up, because the AI landscape is about to get a whole lot more interesting!