Backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, AI platform Sentient has launched an open-source artificial intelligence search system, claiming it outperforms leading competitors.

🚀ANNOUNCING OPEN DEEP SEARCH ON SENTIENT CHAT

Sentient research has shown the power of the crypto ecosystem with their latest achievement in Open Deep Search (ODS)—outperforming Perplexity and ChatGPT on AI search.

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Open Deep Search (ODS) is a “high-performance and user-friendly” alternative to Perplexity AI and GPT-4o. It employs “fingerprint” technology, enabling developers to protect intellectual property and monetize models without centralization.

“AI should belong to the community, not be controlled by corporations with closed-source code,” stated Sentient co-founder and Indian Institute of Science professor Himanshu Tyagi.

ODS scored 75.44% on DeepMind’s Frames test, which evaluates factual accuracy, search capabilities, and reasoning required for answering complex “multi-step” questions using multiple sources. By comparison, ChatGPT-4o scored 65.35%, while Perplexity achieved 42.4%.

In another test, SimpleQA, ODS achieved an 88.3% accuracy rate, measuring performance on direct factual queries.

“Anyone with a computer can run our code, reproduce our results, and verify whether they are correct,” Sentient emphasized.

In March, Sentient co-founder Sandeep Nailwal stated that artificial intelligence will never become a sentient being due to its lack of intrinsic drives, which are fundamental to humans and other biological species.