NEAR AI

We're Building Shared Intelligence Privately, for Everyone

NEAR AI is an artificial intelligence research, engineering, and product development company.

Our Mission

Our mission is to build verifiable, privacy-preserving AI that ensures every computation is private, every result provable, and every participant rewarded.

We believe the future of AI is user-owned and verifiable. NEAR AI enables a world where AI models operate with transparent proofs of integrity and governance.

Today, AI Is Based on Trust

For Users

Increased productivity means surrendering your most personal secrets.

For Enterprises

Handling the data needed to feed better AI is risky, slow, and expensive.

For the Public Sector

AI is either out of reach or accessing it requires surrendering sovereignty and trusting foreign entities.

Tomorrow, AI Will Be Based on Verified, User-Owned Privacy

TEAM

NEAR AI was founded by former Google Research team member Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the landmark Transformer research paper “Attention Is All You Need” and creator of the NEAR blockchain.

Today, we're a growing group of globally-dispersed engineers, researchers, product managers, scientists, and creatives collaborating to build a better tomorrow.

Illia Polosukhin
Illia PolosukhinFounder
George Zeng
George ZengCPO & GM
Sergey Astretsov
Sergey AstretsovHead of Product
Cameron Dennis
Cameron DennisDirector of AI
Pierre Le Guen
Pierre Le GuenHead of Engineering
Pranav Raja
Pranav RajaML Researcher
Evrard-Nil Daillet
Evrard-Nil DailletSenior Software Engineer
Henry Park
Henry ParkSoftware Engineer
Nick Pismenkov
Nick PismenkovSoftware Engineer
Emil Bogomolov
Emil BogomolovMachine Learning Engineer

NEAR Foundation

NEAR AI is supported by key contributors from NEAR Foundation.

Danny Carpentier Balogh
Danny Carpentier BaloghHead of Product Marketing
Anelda Grove Dempster
Anelda Grove DempsterSenior Legal Counsel
Michael Coburn
Michael CoburnInformation Technology and Security Director

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