Supported by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, AI platform Sentient has launched an open-source artificial intelligence search engine, claiming it surpasses leading competitors.
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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 described as 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 the model without centralization.
“AI should belong to the community, not be controlled by closed-source corporations,” noted Sentient co-founder and Indian Institute of Science professor Himanshu Tyagi.
ODS scored 75.44% in DeepMind’s Frames test, which evaluates factual accuracy, search capabilities, and reasoning used to answer complex “multi-step” questions with multiple source analysis. In comparison, ChatGPT-4o scored 65.35%, and Perplexity scored 42.4%.
In another test, SimpleQA, ODS scored 88.3%. This test measures accuracy on direct factual questions.
“Anyone with a computer can run our code, reproduce our results, and verify their accuracy,” stated Sentient.
Back in March, Sentient co-founder Sandeep Nailwal stated that artificial intelligence will never become a sentient being due to the lack of aspirations inherent to humans and other biological species.