Franklin Templeton makes strategic investment in AI project Sentient

Global asset manager Franklin Templeton has announced a strategic investment in the artificial intelligence project Sentient (SENT). Following the investment, Sentient plans to collaborate on developing institutional-grade financial services using its open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology. According to Sentient, the two firms will work together over the next several months to co-develop advanced AI use cases for the financial sector and apply the project's open-source reasoning technology in live financial production environments.