NEAR to Hire Artificial-Intelligence Engineers as Part of AI Roadmap

Layer-1,
NEAR,
will
hire
artificial-intelligence
(AI)
engineers
as
part
of
its
3-6
month
roadmap
to
building
user-owned
AI.

According
to
a
deck
reviewed
by
CoinDesk,
the
company
is
planning
to
hire
AI
engineers
“soon,”
and
its
product
team
is
working
to
plan
AI
workstreams
over
a
3-6
month
transition
phase.
The
deck
was
presented
earlier
today
via
a
virtual
town
hall
meeting
by
NEAR
co-founder
Illia
Polosukhin
with
NEAR
core
employees.

This
comes
as
the
intersection
between
AI
and
blockchain
continues
to
be
a
hot
topic,
with
NEAR
attempting
to
position
itself
at
the
forefront.
Polosukhin
was
on

a
panel
at
Nivida’s
conference
titled
“Transforming
AI”
last
month,
and
saw
its
token
NEAR
double
in
price
in
anticipation
of
the
event.

The
company
is
well
seasoned
in
terms
of
AI
expertise,
Polosukhin
is
an
artificial
intelligence
researcher
and
software
engineer
that
co-built
the
‘Transformer’
architecture.
The
architecture
powers
generative
AI
systems
like
ChatGPT.

NEAR
will
use

near.ai
for
surfacing
AI
information
and
will
make
an
external
announcement
in
May,
according
to
the
slide
show.

The
layer-1
says
it
believes
it
is
uniquely
positioned
to
make
AI
open
source,
given
its
not-for-profit
and
decentralized
nature.
The
company
also
said
the
growth
of
revenue
incentives
will
always
take
over
at
for-profit
companies,
whereas
at
NEAR,
its
token
economy
will
create
value
in
an
open,
permissionless
ecosystem.

NEAR
has
been
pushing
its
“chain
abstraction,”
narrative
over
the
past
few
months,
which
aims
to
tackle
the
user
experience
in
crypto
by
simplifying
the
hurdles
that
exist
in
a
multichain
environment.
AI
will
help
deliver
NEAR’s
core
vision
by
accelerating
development
&
ease
of
use,
according
to
the
deck
viewed
by
CoinDesk.