AI governance

Abhishek Saxena’s work at Sentient targets the gap where open-source AI keeps losing: not capability, but economics—and his answer is infrastructure that automatically pays builders, maintainers, and evaluators every time their artifact is used, enforced by smart contracts rather than legal goodwill. By combining cryptographic fingerprinting, on-chain attribution, and grant funding with no equity attached, Sentient is building the coordination layer that would make open-source development financially rational enough to compete with a corporate salary.

Mubin is a technology product leader specializing in autonomous commerce infrastructure, API governance, marketplace orchestration, and enterprise-scale AI systems. He currently serves as Director of Product Management at Walmart, where he leads 0-1 marketplace and food delivery initiatives focused on scalable autonomous operations and seller ecosystem intelligence