Open AGI Builders Day at KDD

[Co-Host] ​Sentient Foundation ​Sentient Labs Open AGI Builders Day at KDD📅 Date: August 13, 2026 | 11:00–14:00📍 Venue: The Cliff About the Event As foundation models become increasingly commoditized, the AI industry is shifting toward a new era driven by agents, applications, and infrastructure. Open AGI Builders Day is co-hosted by Sentient, bringing together AI founders, developers, researchers, investors, and ecosystem builders to explore the future of Open AI, agent infrastructure, AI applications, and collaborative intelligence. This event also celebrates Sentient's KDD 2026-accepted research, "CryptoAnalystBench: Failures in Multi-Tool Long-Form LLM Analysis," which systematically examines failure patterns in LLMs performing long-form analysis across multi-tool environments. The research highlights the limitations LLMs face in real-world crypto analysis scenarios and explores directions for improvement. Topics include: In addition to talks, the event will feature networking session [Co-Host] ​​About Sentient Foundation Sentient Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring Artificial General Intelligence remains open-source and aligned with humanity. Operating with neutrality and transparency at its core, the Foundation promotes global adoption of open-source AGI, champions alignment and safety standards, distributes grants to developers worldwide, and coordinates governance frameworks for responsible AI development. ​​​​​About Sentient Labs Sentient Labs is an AI research and product lab building AI systems capable of deep reasoning, continuous learning, and self-improvement. Their latest product EvoSkill, enables AI engineering teams to automatically evolve entire AI agents using nothing more than a model and a benchmark. Sentient Labs also hosts AI engineering competitions on their own platform called Sentient Arena where top researchers square off to build the best harness-based agent solutions to the world's most challenging AI reasoning problems.