Blog
Updates and insights from the NEAR AI team
Illia Polosukhin
•Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning: A Business Model for User-Owned AI
We present a novel approach to training, fine-tuning, and utilizing models and agents that allows for the decentralized, transparent properties of open source while creating a business model for developers and researchers.
Jay Zalowitz
•Introducing the Open Agents Alliance
At ETHDenver 2025, the NEAR AI team introduced an exciting collaboration of forward-thinking teams: the Open Agents Alliance (OAA), an initiative to deliver powerful, open source AI services to all users by combining infrastructure.
Illia Polosukhin
•Introducing AITP: Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol to enable inter-agent payments & communication
NEAR AI is releasing today a Request for Comments (RFC) of AITP: Agent Interaction and Transaction Protocol, enabling AI agents to communicate securely across trust boundaries.
Alex Skidanov
•Announcing Proof of Response
A novel primitive in decentralized systems to guarantee liveness and responsiveness of services
Illia Polosukhin
•Building Next-Gen NEAR AI Infrastructure with TEEs
Enabling Fully Private, Verifiable AI Agents with Phala Network
Illia Polosukhin
•NEAR AI Launches Research Hub to Build the Next Frontier AI Model
NEAR.AI is building the next generation frontier AI model with 1.4T parameters.
Illia Polosukhin
•NEAR AI Assistant is in Alpha: User-Owned AI in Action
Experience the first version of NEAR AI Assistant, designed to execute actions on your behalf.