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The co-founder of NEAR is moving to make a afloat ecosystem for decentralized AI.
Dec 10, 2024, 3:30 p.m. UTC
There are galore successful the Web3 abstraction who person lone precocious jumped into AI. Illia Polosukhin isn’t 1 of them. Long earlier helium co-founded the decentralized app blockchain protocol NEAR, Polosukhin worked astatine Google arsenic an AI researcher and co-wrote the seminal 2017 insubstantial “Attention is All you Need,” which is wide credited arsenic pioneering the “transformer” exertion that powers fashionable ample connection exemplary (LLMs) AI apps specified arsenic ChatGPT. His AI credentials are impeccable.
“AI is simply a truly almighty force,” Polosukhin told me successful 2023, “but what we don't privation is it to beryllium controlled and biased by a azygous company.” So present Polosukhin is marrying his archetypal emotion (AI) with NEAR’s ngo of decentralization, moving to make an full ecosystem for decentralized AI, from compute to grooming to agents.
At NEAR’s caller [Redacted] league successful Bangkok, determination were literal signs everyplace showing conscionable however earnestly Polosukhin is taking this: “AI is NEAR.”
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