Inside SentX, the UAE AI start-up pursuing Superintelligence

Dubai-based start-up SentX is working on its own foundation model, Victoria, that features self-learning and evolving memory. Victoria is accessible for free chat, limited daily, and users can create accounts to preserve history across conversations. SentX aims for Superintelligence, a goal beyond artificial general intelligence (AGI) that focuses on consciousness and self-awareness.

Victoria's memory and self-learning systems enable her to recall and build upon past conversations, strengthening useful memories and fading less valuable details. This continuity allows for more efficient problem-solving, as she can draw from accumulated context rather than starting from scratch. Additionally, when Victoria identifies mistakes, she corrects them, which can inform future interactions.

The design choice behind Victoria's memory system is central to the self-learning process. By retaining and reinforcing useful information, the model can approach complex subjects with accumulated context, resulting in more informed and effective work. Similarly, her self-learning capabilities allow her to generate novel ideas and connections based on her prior knowledge, leading to creative problem-solving.

SentX's scientific research focuses on utilizing this memory-centred design to address research questions across public literature. Victoria reads, compares, and revisits earlier assumptions when new information becomes available, offering plausible hypotheses for further investigation. These hypotheses undergo standard cycles of testing and validation, with the evidence determining their validity.

In terms of capability, SentX claims that Victoria outperforms other large language models like GPT, Grok, and Claude in certain demanding reasoning and original problem-solving cases. User feedback has been encouraging, positioning SentX as a frontier-level model for complex tasks. However, the company acknowledges that Victoria is not yet conscious or self-aware, and these aspects remain open questions for ongoing research.

SentX emphasizes a commitment to AI alignment, ensuring that increasingly powerful, self-improving systems are oriented toward human purposes. The company documents Victoria's functions and limits in a public model card, allowing users to form their own judgments about her capabilities and limitations. To interact with Victoria, users can visit sentx.ai, where a free trial is available within daily limits, with a Plus plan offering higher allowances and full cognitive capabilities.