The Origin Story of NEAR
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About this video
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.
The foundation of modern AI.
NEAR is the universal commerce layer for assets and agents.
Website: near.org NEAR AI: near.ai Intents: near.org/intents Chain Abstraction: proximity.dev Sharding: nearone.org
For the devs GitHub: github.com/near Dev Docs: docs.near.org Devhub: devhub.near.page @NEARDevHub
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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.
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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.
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We started near AI originally as AI company. We were trying to teach machines to code.