NEAR AI | 554 followers on LinkedIn. Building an AI future, owned by everyone. | 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.