Sentient Shakes Up AI Race: Open-Source AGI Network ’The GRID’ Takes Direct Aim at OpenAI

Game on. The artificial general intelligence (AGI) arms race just got hotter—and open-source.

Sentient, a rising rival to OpenAI, dropped a bombshell today with the launch of The GRID: a decentralized AGI network that's fully open-source. No gatekeepers, no proprietary black boxes—just raw, community-driven intelligence.

Why it matters: This isn't incremental—it's a Molotov cocktail thrown at Big Tech's AI monopoly. The GRID's architecture reportedly bypasses traditional cloud dependencies, cutting costs by orders of magnitude (though we've heard that crypto pitch before).

The cynical take: Wall Street will spin this as 'the next OpenAI killer'—until they realize open-source doesn't have quarterly revenue targets. But for once, the disruption might actually be real.