TL;DR:
- NEAR Protocol to hire AI engineers as part of a 3-6 month roadmap to building user-owned AI.
- The company, led by Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin, aims to position itself at the forefront of AI and blockchain intersection.
NEAR to Hire Artificial-Intelligence Engineers as Part of AI Roadmap
NEAR Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain project, is set to hire artificial-intelligence engineers as part of its initiative to build user-owned AI within the next 3-6 months. Led by Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin, the company presented a deck outlining its plans to hire AI engineers soon and work on AI projects over the transition phase. NEAR has positioned itself at the forefront of the intersection between AI and blockchain, with Polosukhin being an experienced AI researcher and software engineer who co-built the ‘Transformer’ architecture.