{"id":"6whbcRAPQjs","title":"The Origin Story of NEAR","description":"Before NEAR, Illia Polosukhin was an AI researcher at Google and a co-author of Attention Is All You Need, the paper that introduced Transformers. \n\nThe foundation of modern AI.\n\nNEAR is the universal commerce layer for assets and agents. \n\nWebsite: https://near.org/\nNEAR AI: https://near.ai/\nIntents: https://near.org/intents\nChain Abstraction: https://www.proximity.dev/\nSharding: https://nearone.org/\n\nFor the devs\nGitHub: https://github.com/near \nDev Docs: https://docs.near.org/\nDevhub: https://devhub.near.page/ @NEARDevHub\n\nConnect with socials\nTwitter:   / nearprotocol  \nBlog: https://near.org/blog/\nMedium:   / nearprotocol  \n#NEAR #nearprotocol #NEARAI","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/6whbcRAPQjs/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"My background is actually in machine learning and AI. I was originally AI researcher. I worked at Google research leading a team working on natural language understanding machine translation. As part of that, I became one of the co-authors of the paper called attention is all you need which introduced the transformer architecture. Transformer architecture is what's used now in all of the modern generative AI. It's what's used in Geminon as well as you know all of the video image etc. I saw that as an opportunity to really go and build products and so I left Google. We started near AI originally as AI company. We were trying to teach machines to code.","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:30:46.982Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":0,"text":"My background is actually in machine learning and AI. I was originally AI researcher. I worked at Google research leading a team working on natural","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whbcRAPQjs&t=0s"},{"start_seconds":7,"text":"language understanding machine translation. As part of that, I became one of the co-authors of the paper called attention is all you need which introduced the transformer architecture.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whbcRAPQjs&t=7s"},{"start_seconds":17,"text":"Transformer architecture is what's used now in all of the modern generative AI.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whbcRAPQjs&t=17s"},{"start_seconds":21,"text":"It's what's used in Geminon as well as you know all of the video image etc. I saw that as an opportunity to really go and build products and so I left Google.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whbcRAPQjs&t=21s"},{"start_seconds":29,"text":"We started near AI originally as AI company. We were trying to teach machines to code.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6whbcRAPQjs&t=29s"}],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=6whbcRAPQjs","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/6whbcRAPQjs"}