Near AI

NEAR AI is an artificial intelligence research, engineering, and product development company committed to building an AI future owned by everyone. Founded by AI pioneer and former Google Deepmind researcher Illia Polosukhin, NEAR AI’s verifiable private inference infrastructure empowers developers and enterprises to deploy AI models with full control over their data. With hardware-backed private inference via a simple API, NEAR AI Cloud runs sensitive AI workloads securely and at scale, from privacy-critical consumer interactions to autonomous systems and critical infrastructure. NEAR AI Private Chat brings the same guarantees to users’ everyday questions and research. Serving over 100 million users across platforms such as Brave Nightly and OpenMind, NEAR AI is proven infrastructure for transforming sensitive data into safe intelligence and advancing a user-owned AI future. Learn more at https://near.ai/.