On July 14th, partners at Sentient's VC Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures talked in an interview about why they led the investment in open-source AI platform Sentient. Joey Krug, partner at Founders Fund, says the most important thing about Sentient really comes down to the quality of the team. I've known Sandeep and Pramod for years, and they're both very sharp in their respective technical fields. Paul Veradittakit, managing partner at Pantera Capital, said that if AI development remains closed-source, many key aspects of society will be vulnerable to the concentrated effects of censorship and rent-seeking. Sentient's open, monetized, and loyal (OML) AI model will "have great potential to disrupt the AI development industry." Brandon Potts, a partner at Framework Ventures, said that Sentient's open and monetizable AI model "will empower the open-source community" and that the Sentient team is "best positioned" to solve the open-source AI economy.