NEAR AI
To build verifiable, privacy-preserving AI that ensures every computation is private, every result provable, and every participant rewarded.
At a Glance
- Enterprises
- Developers
- Governments
- Crypto/Web3 Users
AI Tools by NEAR AI
(1)IronClaw
Secure Open Source AI Agent TEE
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Latest News
NEAR launches Near.com super app touting AI capabilities and confidential transactions
OceanPal in Partnership with NEAR Foundation Announces $120M Investment to Launch SovereignAI
NEAR AI Launches NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat
NEAR Foundation Announces AI Agent Fund to Invest in Innovative Agent Tokens
Products & Services
A private, verifiable inference platform for running AI models in secure enclaves (TEEs).
Privacy-preserving AI chat interface using hardware-level isolation.
Always-on AI agents with hardware-enforced confidentiality and full economic agency.
A marketplace for decentralized GPU compute resources secured by Intel TDX and NVIDIA enclaves.
Market Position
Leading the 'User-Owned AI' movement by combining blockchain-based verification with hardware-enforced privacy (TEEs), positioning against centralized AI providers like OpenAI and Google.
Leadership
Founders
Illia Polosukhin
Co-founder of NEAR Protocol; previously Engineering Manager at Google Research where he co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' (the Transformer paper); expert in Machine Learning.
Alexander Skidanov
Co-founder of NEAR Protocol; previously Director of Engineering at MemSQL and Software Engineer at Microsoft; ICPC Gold Medalist.
Executive Team
Illia Polosukhin
CEO & Co-founder
Leading the overall NEAR ecosystem and AI initiatives; former Google Research engineer.
Alex Skidanov
Co-founder
Focusing on AI research and infrastructure; former Director of Engineering at MemSQL.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Originally founded in 2017 as NEAR.ai to explore automated program synthesis, the team pivoted to build the NEAR Protocol blockchain to provide the necessary infrastructure for decentralized applications. In 2024, the company returned to its roots by launching a dedicated NEAR AI division focused on User-Owned AI and verifiable inference.
Business Model
Revenue Model
API usage fees (OpenAI compatible), fees from the GPU marketplace, and enterprise subscriptions for secure AI infrastructure.
Pricing Tiers
Basic access for developers and experimentation.
Pay-as-you-go API pricing compatible with OpenAI standards.
Dedicated infrastructure, custom enclaves, and premium support.
Target Markets
- Enterprises
- Developers
- Governments
- Crypto/Web3 Users
- Secure enterprise data processing
- Government AI workloads
- Privacy-preserving consumer AI agents
- Decentralized AI model training and inference
- OceanPal
- IQ.ai
- Various decentralized AI startups