NEAR AI is a confidential, verifiable AI infrastructure and product-development company that builds privacy-preserving AI for a user-owned agent economy. NEAR AI's Twitter Score is 60 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #14,250 (top 5%) among 484,613 tracked accounts.
NEAR AI was founded by Illia Polosukhin, a former Google Research team member and co-author of the foundational Transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need." The company is affiliated with NEAR Protocol and the NEAR Foundation, and is a member of NVIDIA Inception.
NEAR AI has shipped two flagship products, NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat, both built on Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Computing hardware to deliver cryptographic attestations verifiable against Intel and NVIDIA attestation services. The company also introduced IronClaw, an open-source agent harness that allows agents to hold credentials and transact value inside encrypted enclaves. NEAR AI Cloud currently serves production workloads for Abound, Brave Nightly, OpenMind, and Venice AI. NEAR AI has also partnered with the Government of Bermuda to deploy a secure AI assistant for public servants.
NEAR AI has published 624 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 143 accounts a total of 379 times, reflecting active engagement across the crypto and AI communities.
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The accounts that follow NEAR AI include 234 founders, 55 angel investors, 90 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Ansem, Haseeb Qureshi, Hsaka, Tarun Chitra, Eric Wall and John Wang.