NEAR Origin Story Part 5
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The origin story of NEAR - Part 5.
As AI models become more valuable, security becomes everything. A single model could be worth billions, but developers still need to trust the infrastructure running it.
That’s why privacy, secure execution, and verifiable infrastructure became such a core part of NEAR’s vision. #NEAR
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But one of the things we work on near AI side, if I'm building models, this model is effectively my main IP. The model weights is the fact that you can store them on a flash drive. So this flash drive with maybe a terabyte of weights may be worth a billion dollars. You want this model to be deployed to some data center. Somebody can come in into this data center with a flash drive, copy it out and effectively steal a billion dollars. So there is a a huge concern
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around security. There is kind of mistrust between the model developers and data centers. And so if you have it like there's data centers around the world, there's more energy available in different countries.