The company was founded in 2007 by Antoine Blondeau, Babak Hodjat and Adam Cheyer who created the natural language technology that led to Siri, Apple's voice recognition software.

[7] Sentient emerged from stealth mode in November 2014 with $103.5 million in Series C funding.

[7][3][9] Sentient worked with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to analyze blood pressure to predict the likelihood of sepsis in ICU patients.

[6] Sentient's platform[10][18] combined evolutionary computation, which mimics biological evolution, and deep learning, which is based on the structure of nervous systems.

[7] Sentient's algorithms worked across as many as two million CPU cores and 5000 GPU cards across 4,000 physical sites around the world, making it one of the largest known systems dedicated to AI.