An artificial intelligence development platform, supported by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, has unveiled an open-source AI search framework that claims to outshine top closed-source rivals.
The platform announced the launch of Open Deep Search (ODS) on April 2, touting it as a high-performance, developer-centric alternative to solutions like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
ODS is designed to empower developers with open-source “Loyal AI” models that maintain the original intent of their creators, according to the company.
The platform’s fingerprinting technology enables developers to safeguard their intellectual property while encouraging model accessibility—addressing one of the significant challenges in open-source AI: how to monetize a model without centralization.
“AI should be community-driven, rather than monopolized by closed-source companies,” stated Himanshu Tyagi, co-founder of the platform and a professor at the Indian Institute of Science.
He added, “We’re committed to constructing, monetizing, and delivering open-source AI with a fundamental principle: singularity in intelligence, but diversity in use cases.”
”Open-source development guarantees performance and user control that closed systems cannot provide.”
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ODS outshines ChatGPT and Perplexity
The ODS attained 75.3% accuracy on the “Frames” benchmark, which assesses factual accuracy, retrieval, and reasoning skills required to tackle complex “multi-hop questions” that necessitate combining multiple sources.
This performance exceeded OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o Search Preview, which scored 50.5%, and the Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro, which achieved 44.4%.
To eliminate potential bias, the team made sure that researchers had no access to the Frames testing sets during the benchmarking process.
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“Independent validation is essential only for closed-source solutions, since open-source projects have no motive to misreport evaluations,” Tyagi explained, further stating:
“Anyone with a computer can execute our code, replicate our findings, and confirm their accuracy. The reported figures can be verified globally using the repo’s evaluation section by anyone.”
The release of ODS comes after a surge of interest in the platform, with the firm reporting over 1.8 million registrations on their waitlist leading up to the debut.
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A pivotal moment for open-source AI
The introduction of this new open-source search framework marks a significant moment in the open-source AI development landscape.
“Instances such as DeepSeek’s advancements in reasoning, Manus’s innovative agents, and our contributions to ODS with sophisticated AI search frameworks are testament to this evolution,” he continued.
Sewoong Oh, Sentient’s lead researcher and a professor at the University of Washington, stated, “Open-source models have the potential to outperform closed-source titans with the appropriate architecture. The results from these benchmarks reaffirm our mission to foster a collaborative ecosystem benefiting all AI developers and users.”
The launch also builds on the company’s prior achievements. In February, it concluded one of the largest NFT minting events to date, with over 650,000 participants gaining partial ownership of its AI models.
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