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The most important technology of our time is being built in private, but we're funding the alternative: $42M for the people building AGI in the open. Whether it's the model, weights, code, data, or evals, AI should belong to the people it serves, run on hardware they own, and reach the cheapest phone on earth. Here’s a few of the use cases we want to back ↓
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Frontier AI labs want to pace the frontier, but open-source AI never got the memo. @Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops open weights 45x cheaper than Opus 5, @NASA drops an open model for lunar science, and EvoSkill gets 60+ citations from MIT, Google, and more.
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This Week In OS AI Field Notes: 25 September 2026

Open-Source Models NASA-IBM MODEL: @NASA and @IBMResearch released the Lunar Foundation Model, among the first open models built for lunar science, trained on roughly 2 million image tiles drawn

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Sentient is touching down in Seoul for @kbwofficial 🇰🇷 Kicking things off: @sentient_found, @KaitoAI, and @axisrobotics are hosting the next Open AGI Salon focused on AI and robotics! 🌏 Global RSVP: luma.com/0kun5o5z 🇰🇷 Korean RSVP: rocketpunch.com/event/EfCSDx… Check out our full KBW lineup ↓
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@GoKiteAI is hosting a night focused on how AI agents will pay for services, transact securely, and operate across digital economies. 📍 GB Gabin Art Hall 🗓 Wednesday, September 30th, 7-11PM KST RSVP ↓ luma.com/ProofofAI-KBW2026
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Publish in the open and the whole field builds with you.
This year, EvoSkill has been cited by 60+ papers, including work from @MIT, @CarnegieMellon, @Microsoft, @Google, @AlibabaGroup, @amazon, and more. Here are 14 of the most impactful papers building on EvoSkill ↓
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Open-source AI keeps drawing a crowd in Shanghai and @sentient_zh has the receipts ↓
9 月 19 日,Open AGI Builders Day 再次来到上海! 这次我们邀请了来自 AI 产品、Agent、开发者工具与基础设施等不同方向的 Builders,一起分享正在构建的产品,也围绕 Agent 时代的产品、交互与控制,以及 如何从 Demo 走向真正的 AI 生意 展开了两场 Panel 讨论。 从技术到产品,从 Demo 到商业化,感谢每一位来到现场分享和交流的朋友!
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Agents, open-source AI, and a round of drinks in a library? RSVP ↓
Heading to SF Tech Week? Join @WithAmpersand, @rootlyhq, and @sentient_found for an upscale happy hour with the people building enterprise agents and open AGI. 📍 Novela, 662 Mission St, San Francisco 🗓 Thur, Oct 8th, 5:30-9:00PM PT
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open-source tools roundup. 2 five repos that teach your agents what models can’t: github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-sk… - the cure for AI slop frontends github.com/DietrichGebert/po… - stop your agents from wasting tokens github.com/sentient-agi/EvoS… - self-evolving agent, no human needed github.com/obra/superpowers - spawns a full agent dev team github.com/msitarzewski/agen… - complete AI agency with agent personas shoutout to its creators: @lexnlin, @DietrichGebert, @sentientagi, @obra, and Michael Sitarzewski
We found 5 open source AI github repos to level up your AI research and building skills. 1. LLM-FINGERPRINT-DETECTOR This tool fingerprints any endpoint to find out which model is being utilized so you can accurately detect if the harness/vendors are swapping out models sneakily. 2. LITELLM An AI gateway that gives you a single interface to call 100+ LLM providers via the OpenAI format. 3. LLMS-FROM-SCRATCH by @rasbt Stop just using LLMs and learn how they actually work. It walks you through building a GPT-style LLM from scratch in PyTorch, from tokenization and attention to pretraining and instruction fine-tuning. 4. AWESOME-OPENSOURCE-AI by @dankornas A curated list of open-source projects for people building with AI covering models, libraries, tools, datasets, and more. 5. JCODE Open-source coding agent that's 20x more memory-efficient than Claude Code, allowing you run more agents in parallel with the same machine. LINKS BELOW
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The next Open AGI Salon brings AI and robots together at KBW 🇰🇷
Open AGI Salon is heading to Korea Blockchain Week! @KaitoAI, @axisrobotics, and @sentient_found are bringing builders, researchers, and thought leaders together to discuss the intersection of AI and robotics. 🗓 September 29th, 2-6PM KST
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The signature was on the armband the whole time. Renaissance artist Raphael did the same thing 500 years ago in La Fornarina, painting RAPHAEL VRBINAS around his subject's armlet. Copy the work and the signature comes with it. Copy the painting, copy the clue.
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There's a signature hidden in this painting. Not in the corner, not on the edges, but in the portrait itself. Can you find it?
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Open AGI Builder's Day is back in Shanghai 🇨🇳 3 days left to RSVP ↓
3 more days until Open AGI Builder’s Day returns to Shanghai! @Zai_org and @sentient_found are putting builders in the same room to talk about the future of AI agents and frontier models. 📍 Shengbang International Building, 2F, No. 1318 Sichuan North Road 🗓 September 19, 1:30–5:30PM CST
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Sentient Foundation retweeted
Raffi Krikorian wrote that AI agents are scanning the open-source code that holds up the entire internet, finding bugs that have sat there for decades. A lot of people hear that and say we need to restrict access to these AI tools. Raffi thinks that's exactly the wrong response. Full episode: piped.video/LdIct8ygWcc?si=P4rS…
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Sentient Foundation retweeted
Raffi Krikorian's Tesla crashed on full self-driving. His insurance paid for it. Not Tesla's. That's one of the stories from our conversation with Mozilla's CTO on why we've all become renters of the technology we depend on. If full transcripts and show notes are your thing, we've got a Substack for that: opencommonspodcast.substack.…
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