Open AGI Tea House

Open AGI Tea House

Steeped in research. Shared over tea.

About the Event

Good research deserves time to read, room for questions, and people to think alongside.

Open AGI Tea House brings together researchers, open-source contributors, and AI builders for an intimate afternoon exploring the ideas shaping open AI—with tea, coffee, and a few board games along the way.

At the heart of the gathering are paper readings led by the researchers behind the work. Together, we’ll unpack their methods and findings, examine limitations, and discuss what comes next. Expect thoughtful explanations, candid conversations, and plenty of opportunities to ask questions.

Arrive & Settle InEnjoy tea, coffee, and light bites. Meet fellow guests and explore the curated reading collection.

Research Paper Readings & DiscussionsHear researchers walk through their work, from the question that started it to the results that surprised them. Join the discussion and bring your own perspective.

Tea Breaks & Table ConversationsTake time to read, exchange ideas, and get to know the people behind the papers.

Board Games & Open QuestionsStay for a game, find a potential collaborator, or leave a question for the community to keep exploring.

Speakers, selected papers, and the detailed schedule will be announced soon.

Who Should Join

AI researchers and research engineers

Open-source contributors and maintainers

Developers working with models, agents, and AI infrastructure

Students and independent researchers

Curious builders who enjoy digging into how things work

Sentient FoundationSentient Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remains open-source and aligned with humanity. Guided by neutrality and transparency, Sentient promotes global adoption of open-source AGI, leads alignment and safety standards, provides grants to developers worldwide, and coordinates governance frameworks for responsible AI development.

Sentient LabsSentient Labs is an AI research and product lab building AI systems capable of deep reasoning, continuous learning, and self-improvement. Its flagship product, EvoSkill, enables AI engineering teams to automatically evolve entire AI agents using only a model and a benchmark. Sentient Labs also runs AI engineering competitions on Sentient Arena, where top researchers compete to build the best harness-based agent solutions for the world's hardest AI reasoning problems.

Tiny FishTinyFish gives developers the infrastructure to build agents that reliably interact with the live web, navigating websites, executing multi-step workflows, and returning structured results. We offer search, fetch, and agent capabilities.