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We’re excited to share the first step towards enabling private, verifiable AI: Open-source TEE infrastructure for AI platform builders to add hardware-verified privacy, built with @PhalaNetwork. Repo:
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Coming (back) soon. 0de65393967d695638c1d0acdb080d878332ff36728d36e0ac4bd5d00e9f44e6.
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NEAR AI Alpha is live at This is our first step towards powerful, privacy-preserving AI to ensure the future of technology is truly owned by everyone. NEAR AI Assistant (alpha): NEAR AI Research Hub:
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1/18 - The @NEARProtocol agent ecosystem is expanding rapidly with innovative use-cases that make NEAR more accessible and fun!. Here's a thread highlighting 10 amazing agent projects and 3 agent creation platforms that you can try right now 🧵👇.
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In 2017, NEAR AI set out with a vision to teach machines to code. Today, we are back under @ilblackdragon and @AlexSkidanov leadership with a focus to teach AI to build Web3 applications and accelerating the vision of User Ownership. More details: and 🧵.
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We're sponsoring @coinbase's first AI hackathon with $22,500 in bounties to build a reflexive trading agent, cross-chain detective agent, and an autonomous portfolio coach agent! . All inference on NEAR's Agent hub is free and you should check out the support resources below!!👇.
Coinbase is hosting its first-ever AI hackathon this weekend in San Francisco, hosted by CDP’s @kleffew94. For the first time, leading partners and builders in the space will be in the same room, collaborating to push the boundaries of AI and onchain technology. The hackathon
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Concerned about Chinese gov accessing your Deepseek prompts?. Well it can now run privately in a TEE powered by @PhalaNetwork & @NEARProtocol's Private ML SDK so you don't need to run it locally! Welcome to the new era of AI verifiability. Amazing work @bgmshana and team! 🤝.
Don't trust @deepseek_ai? Great, let's verify it!. Deepseek-R1 runs on TEE GPU now, using Private ML SDK made by @PhalaNetwork and @near_ai. The TEE feature in NVIDIA H200 ensures that nobody can sneak any part of your data, even not the dev or the admin.
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1/ @NEARProtocol 🤝 @elizaOS. Thanks to @robertyan0, Eliza devs now get FREE inference via NEAR AI Hub + agents that handle transfers, swaps & tracking across NEAR, Bitcoin, Cosmos & EVM chains. Your agents no longer have to care which blockchains they're interacting with!.
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NEAR AI agents can be activated by various triggers on internet and onchain. One of them is a trigger based on X/Twitter mentions, allowing to respond, act on chain, or execute a different API call.
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Introducing the Open Agents Alliance: a shared commitment to make the future of AI agents and assistants open, user-owned, and globally available to all while fairly rewarding contributors. The member teams will work together on a single User-Owned tech stack: hardware,.
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🚀Announcing the One Trillion Agents Hackathon w/ $100k in prizes + chance to pitch to funds managing over $7B!! . Join to build autonomous AI agents on @NEARProtocol from Jan 31-Feb 21, 2025 with winners being spotlighted during ETH Denver! 🧵.
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Our Co-Founder and CEO, @IlliaPolosukhin, was featured in @FastCompany where he explain his vision of transparent AI that respects data sovereignty while making open-source development financially sustainable. Check out the full article here:
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Today we released Proof of Response: a new primitive to guarantee liveness & responsiveness of services in decentralized systems. For decentralized networks composed of many participants or nodes – such as blockchain networks or groups of AI agents – Proof of Response offers.
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Do you want AI that learns from your personal preferences while guaranteeing privacy? @XTrace_ai provides encrypted memory for AI agents, enabling secure learning without exposing sensitive information. Learn more about agent memory, RAG, and why xTrace is revolutionary👇.
NEAR AI Office Hours #33 w @XTrace_ai
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1/5: We integrated @CoinbaseDev's x4O2 payment protocol with NEAR Intents to let users and AI agents buy USDC directly through HTTP requests - no blockchain knowledge needed!
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New home page for NEAR AI Developer Hub. Ship your first agent today!. We are cooking more.
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Today we released a Request-for-Comments of AITP: Agent Interaction and Transaction Protocol. AITP is a standardized protocol that lets AI agents communicate securely, exchange data, and transact across trust boundaries using fiat & crypto. The first version is live for agents.
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We have been cooking 👨🍳. Join at REDACTED to learn more what is in store for NEAR AI.
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1/19 The Useful Agents Hackathon wrapped up over the weekend and participants shipped agents that manage social media, conduct startup due diligence, find free food, rebalance portfolios, apply to jobs, deliver verified news, and so much more. Here's what went down. 🧵
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We're live-streaming our @deepseek_ai R1 paper club tonight at 6:30pm PT!! Turn on notifications for the NEAR AI Twitter account to get updated for when we go live!.
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Did you miss any of the first 30 NEAR AI Office Hours? Check out this thread breaking them down one by one! . A big thank you to all our amazing guests! 🙏.
NEAR AI Office Hours is a weekly show all about AI. @ilblackdragon and @AlexSkidanov discuss the latest AI research topics and @near_ai focus areas. This is why NEAR is the blockchain for AI. here's a massive 🧵 of the first 30 shows. Bookmark and save this, it's long.
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We're sponsoring and speaking at the @CoinbaseDev hackathon in SF alongside our friends at @AnthropicAI, @Replit, @virtuals_io, @LatentHoldings, @Visa, @Byte__AI, @xmtp_, @sekoia_virtuals, @openmind_agi, @HeyElsaAI, @hyperbolic_labs, and @trySkyfire!. Hope to see you there!
We are pumped for @CoinbaseDev's upcoming upcoming Onchain AI Hackathon in San Francisco on Feb 1-2. Today, we are announcing a final list of hackathon sponsors for the event, which includes leading companies, across the AI and Onchain sectors. Join us in welcoming:
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1/5 - NEAR AI just launched an MCP integration! Now AI agents built with Claude Code and other MCP-compatible tools can manage NEAR accounts, send tokens & interact with the blockchain through natural language. Here's why it matters👇.
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Don't miss our latest office hours where we unveil NEAR AI's roadmap for secure model & agent hosting!!. We're fixing AI's broken incentive model with private, verifiable infrastructure. Time to make AI work for everyone🌍.
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Soon, all agents deployed to the NEAR AI Hub ( will be verifiable, with access to private AI inference for autonomous agents to communicate securely. As agent-driven AI commerce grows, it will naturally move to crypto for lower fees and fewer.
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1/4: Join the NEAR AI Paper Club as we dive into DeepSeek V3 - a groundbreaking 671B parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model pushing AI boundaries!. 📅 Jan 27, 6:30PM PT.📍 SF led by @AlexSkidanov .📜 Paper: 🎯 Register:
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Many popular crypto x AI agents are glorified spam bots running on unverified infra that could be mining insights from your interactions. Meanwhile, enterprises & small businesses avoid AI because they can't verify how their sensitive data is handled. AI needs better privacy.
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1/ Announcing the Useful Agents Hackathon!!. A 24-hour sprint in SF on March 14th to supercharge your side project with $30k in prizes, free inference, and go-to-market support. Solve real startup problems with clear metric!. Hosted by NEAR AI, @sfcompute, and @ElectricCapital⚡️.
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1/5 - The @PhalaNetwork team just keeps on shipping! ⛴️. Now users and developers can verify their crypto wallet's private keys are securely isolated in TEEs while still connecting to AI tools. No more worrying about memory leaks exposing your assets!.
Building a Crypto Wallet MCP server to integrate with AI tools? ⚙️🤖. Don’t leave your private keys exposed on local setups. With Phala Cloud & @NEARProtocol MCP, you can deploy your Wallet MCP server inside a TEE—secure, verifiable, and easy to launch. Here’s how 🧵
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TEEs – trusted execution environments – unlock 2 critical features for AI developers: verifiable inference & private agent communication. When businesses adopt AI commerce, they’ll be looking for the efficiency crypto offers—but will need privacy. TEEs make this possible. The.
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🧵 Most AI agents today are centralized, unverified, and can't securely manage assets. Shade Agents eliminate single points of failure through decentralization and on-chain verification, with multichain functionality via NEAR Chain Signatures for decentralized key management!.
The First Truly Autonomous AI Agents. Have arrived. Introducing Shade Agents: multichain AI-powered smart contracts that are fully verified onchain and designed to eliminate single points of failure.
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Ultimate AI assistant will be interacting with people, services and goods on your behalf. To be effective - it will need to know everything about you. The only way one can trust it with such data - if all interactions are completely private and secure.
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We will be postponing our weekly livestream tomorrow and replacing it with the second episode of 'Agents Got Talent' with @QuillAI_Network, @PhalaNetwork, and @Gaianet_AI for Friday at 9am PT!. Apply below if you're an agent builder interested in participating!.
We’re back. And this time, it’s bigger. 🤖 Agents Got Talent: Episode 2 with @PhalaNetwork , @Gaianet_AI & @NEARProtocol. Are you building the next game-changing AI agent?.Show us what it can think, do, and solve. The best builders will rise. The rest? Just noise. 👉 Register
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We're excited to announce two new weekly NEAR AI Twitter Spaces with our friends at @NEARWEEK!. 1️⃣ "Last Week in AI News" - Mondays 11am PT / 2pm ET / 8pm CET. 2️⃣ "What Did You Ship This Week?" - Thursdays 11am PT / 2pm ET / 8pm CET. Turn on notifications to stay updated! 🔔.
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NEAR AI agent builders qualify for investment through this $20M agent fund that buys tokens from builders shipping autonomous market makers, game NPCs, and more!. Agent verifiability, privacy, and multi-chain compatibility coming soon! Learn more:
$20m. One mission. Introducing the AI Agent Fund from the NEAR Foundation. Investment dedicated to decentralized AI use cases and mass market consumer solutions.
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We're excited to launch the first "Last Week in AI" - your weekly roundup of the most impactful developments in artificial intelligence!. Join us for an educational discussions on industry breakthroughs and policy updates that are shaping the future. No hype, just insights.
Lock in for the @near_ai "Last Week in AI News" Space with @Cameron_Dennis_ & @Felix_XTrace!. Today, they'll cover @OpenAI’s GPT search + open-source shift, @Google’s Gemini 2.0, @Cursor’s rise, AI model updates, policy moves + more!. Set your reminder:.
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Wondering if there's a limit to how many announcements one team can drop in a single week. Either way, we're about to find out! 🚀.
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Strawberry is solving AI search and execution across blockchains, eliminating the need to choose which chain to use. Their new BerryChat super agent orchestrates specialized mini-agents for news, Twitter, DeFi Llama, and more. Try @StrawberryAI_5 here:
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1/ We're building the next generation of AI security: an Auditor Agent that leverages TEEs to analyze autonomous agents for vulnerabilities & compliance - all while preserving code privacy. Seeking proposals from teams with agent systems & security expertise!. Details below.
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Earlier today, an ecosystem partner inadvertently live-streamed content that did not meet our standards. We take full responsibility and have removed the video. We apologize to our community for this incident.
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Trying to navigate volatile markets using consumer sentiment? Now you can with one click by forking this Mindshare Index agent powered by @KaitoAI insights!. Impressive work from @proximityfi and Yonder Labs!!.
A world first. The Mindshare Index AI Agent autonomously trades a basket of crypto assets based on @KaitoAI mindshare. Powered by Shade Agent tech, this AI agent is 100% verifiable and truly autonomous.
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We recently ran a paper club in San Francisco about S1 where @AlexSkidanov unpacked how it achieved state-of-the-art reasoning with minimal resources. Key takeaways:. 1. Just 1,000 carefully selected examples beat 59K random ones. 2. "Budget forcing" enables test-time scaling by.
NEAR AI Paperclub s1: Simple test-time scaling
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Just one week until our Useful Agents Hackathon in SF where winners compete for a $20k+ prize pool, dedicated GTM support, and free inference! . You likely won't be approved unless you're actually going to hack. Register here:
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The Useful Agents Hackathon is in full swing!! Here are a bunch of photos :)
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Exciting news! Crynux Node v2.5 is now live and fully supporting @NEARProtocol through @auroraisnear! Join this permissionless network with any Mac computer to earn rewards while cutting inference costs by 95%. Get started here:
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NEAR AI Alpha is just the beginning. Our team and ecosystem are committed to ensuring that the AI we use every day is privacy-preserving, community-built and -owned, and designed to benefit users not corporations. Follow along for more updates at
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Shout out to @NEARWEEK for explaining @ilblackdragon's @NVIDIAGTC talk on Decentralized Confidential ML - a system for creating verifiable LLMs that enable monetization of open source models. Give it a read below!.
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A new Internet is NEAR. Follow along at to learn more about User-Owned AI and catch up on the weekly NEAR AI Office Hours with Illia & Alex, with news on tech and products to follow soon.
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Thread on Decentralized, Confidential Machine Learning from co-founder @ilblackdragon at @NVIDIAGTC today.
Today I presented Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning from @near_ai at @NVIDIAGTC – a system for creating & deploying confidential, verifiable LLMs and agents that enables monetization of open source models and decentralized training.
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It was great seeing our very own @alexSkidanov sit down with @danboneh, @pumatheuma, @Pigi_Pal and @Ramkumartweet to discuss verifiably proving AI with TEEs, content authentication, and how @NEARProtocol can be post-quantum secure!
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Over time AI Developer will lower barriers to entry for non-technical people to build new applications. Software ate the world. AI Developer enables everyone to be a builder in the new computing paradigm.
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Curious about what the NEAR AI ecosystem is building? @NEARWEEK hosts a weekly livestream every Thursday at 11am PT where builders showcase their progress, followed by a blog post summarizing key takeaways. Join us on today's livestream in a few hours!.
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Our close friends at @silverstreamAI just announced their $1.2M pre-seed round led by @GradientVC (a sub-fund of Google) to build reliable web agents! We're looking forward to continuing to work together to build the world's best user-owned AI assistant!.
🚀 Meet @silverstreamAI. We're happy to announce that we raised a $1.2M pre-seed round to build the foundation for reliable Autonomous Web Agents. This round was led by the incredible teams at @GradientVC, with strong support from @vento_ventures. This financing round supports.
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Our co-founder, @AlexSkidanov, presented "Decentralized, Confidential ML" at @FundingCommons SF. Alex unpacks 2 challenges:.––How do we deploy AI so people can use it without giving away their data?.––How do we ensure we have a diverse, competitive community of AI systems that.
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@near_ai 🤝 @NVIDIAGTC . Learn how NEAR AI & ecosystem partners are building systems for confidential, verifiable AI computation. This enables model and agent developers to monetize their work and provides end-to-end privacy for individuals & businesses. User-Owned.
I'm excited to speak at NVIDIA GTC again this year! . I'll present @near_ai research on confidential & verifiable AI computation (using NVIDIA Confidential Computing) from a paper publishing next week. Details at @NVIDIAGTC:
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The @NEARFoundation recently published this blog with an awesome re-cap video of the Useful Agents Hackathon! . Huge thanks to our co-organizers, judges, vendors and hackers for making it an amazing event!! .
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We're excited to co-host an AI Agent Building Workshop in San Francisco today!. We're partnering with @TheBAFNetwork to create a hands-on learning experience for students and junior developers. Come build the future with us—limited spots available!. Register below 👇.
Tomorrow’s the day! Join us tomorrow evening in SF for our Sushi & AI Agent Building Workshop with @near_ai 🍣 Come hang out, build something cool, and compete for an onsite bounty for best agent shipped!
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NEAR AI Research Hub includes all the infra in one place for researchers to build the best open source frontier AI: data, models, inference, decentralized storage + compute, and networking protocol with response/delivery guarantees. Learn more at
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Learn how to use Dataset agent on @near_ai. Fork to make your own agents leveraging internet knowledge to answer questions, transact onchain or get executed from smart contracts.
Let me show you how a truly awesome NEAR AI agent works!.Today, I came across a tweet with a quirky question and an unusual assumption—no idea how to answer it. 🤔 But that’s where the fun begins!.I created a dataset based on search results related to the tweet’s topic,
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The Useful Agents Hackathon in San Francisco kicks off in two days!!. It's not too late to register but we're only accepting quality builders committed to proving that their agents are useful with evals, benchmarks, paying users, etc. Register here:
Whether you're here for Ethereum San Francisco, or you're a native-to-the-bay ̷n̷e̷r̷d̷ developer, join the NEAR Ecosystem on March 14th for the. ✨Useful Agent Hackathon✨. $20k in prizes!
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We're thrilled to build the Open Agent Alliance (OAA) with @hellomother_ai and their amazing team of Ethereum OGs! . Join Mother's Community of builders, researchers, and enthusiasts advancing AI on decentralized infrastructure here:
1/ We're proud to announce that Mother has joined the Open Agent Alliance (spearheaded by @NEAR_AI)! 🤝. Together with industry leaders like @AethirCloud, @coinbase, @elizaos, and others, we're building an open, decentralized future where AI agents are user-owned and accessible
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These advancements will enable User-Owned AI to go beyond recombining existing data and instead come up with new concepts, a core feature of AI Researcher.
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Will you be in SF next week? If so, join us for:. ⚡️Monday's Paper Club on s1: ⚡️Wednesday's "Open Source AI Summit": ⚡️Friday - Saturday's "Useful Agents Hackathon":
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We just open sourced our #ProgramSynthesis repo with 3 datasets and various baseline models -- Toward coding machines! Thanks to @mzavershynskyi @rshin @ilblackdragon.
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Deploying agents to NEAR AI? Before posting on the forum, check out our new FAQ that answers your most common questions! .
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NEAR AI meetup tonight in Atlanta!.
Curious about Web3 + AI? Build your first AI agent on @NEARProtocol. By @BlockchainEmory & @Blockchain_GT . ⏰ Thursday, April 10th, 2025 .📆 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm .📍 Emory Goizueta Business School Room 201.🍕Food & Drinks Provided. RSVP:
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Missed last week's livestream where AI ecosystem founders presented their updates? Here is the recap 👇.
NEAR AI Ecosystem - “What Did You Ship This Week?” Ep. 9. A week of steady momentum across the.@near_ai stack. From Open Agent Alliance expansion and new agent standards to browser-native private data operators and OAuth-powered crossposting infrastructure, builders continue
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Join @0xshai and @ilblackdragon for a compelling conversation about AI-powered intents, finance, and commerce! . 🗓️ Date: January 16th.⏰Time: 4:30 PM GMT.
It'll be an unforgettable session, covering all the essentials in Crypto x AI. If you're serious about growing your bags in decentralized AI, this is the place to be.
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Open source always wins.
Great research on open-source by @Harvard:.- $4.15B invested in open-source generates $8.8T of value for companies (aka $1 invested in open-source = $2,000 of value created).- Companies would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist. I
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The Useful Agents Hackathon starts tomorrow in San Francisco and we have an incredible group of Bounty Partners! . Here's what you can win. 👇.
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3/7: Who is this for (right now)?.- AI infrastructure teams.- Platform developers.- Privacy-focused builders. Not yet plug-and-play for all developers, but that's exactly what we're building towards.
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2/7 Current state: .-All data owners want privacy solutions for AI.-Enterprises require verifiable execution.- No open standards for private AI. This SDK provides a new foundation, built on NVIDIA GPU TEE + Intel TDX.
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Web3 so far has seen limited investment and developer efforts spent on building applications that most Internet users truly want to use. AI Developer work will initially allow developers to build applications faster.
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2/18 - Agent: Create custom memecoins effortlessly - set tokenomics, generate AI logos, and launch on NEAR's premier memecoin launchpad. Built by @memedotcooking
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We're going live in one hour to unpack the latest AI news from last week!.
Lock in for the upcoming @near_ai Last Week In AI News space with @Cameron_Dennis_ and @Felix_XTrace!.
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After hosting our first action-packed episode of "What Did You Ship Last Week?", we're excited to host the second one today at 11am PT with a very special guest from @Doppelgangerai!!👀. We will also see awesome demos from @PondGNN @intellex_xyz @PhalaNetwork and @tryjutsu!!.
NEAR AI - "What Did You Ship This Week?" Ep. 1. Last week marked the premiere of the stream, and saying it didn’t get any attention would be an understatement. The stream was packed with incredible demos and updates from builders across the @near_ai ecosystem (plus some NSFW
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Have you ever imagined a world where you could simply have a conversation with your computer to create exactly the software you need? That's what @vgrichina's Strawberry Computer does and here's how it works:.
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Are we close to having machines solve TopCoder problems? Find out how we're teaching machines to program in our latest Medium post here: #machinelearning #deeplearning #singularityisnear #AIresearch.
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14/18 - NEAR AI Agent Studio: Your complete toolkit for building AI agents and multi-agent swarms on NEAR. From simple automations to complex swarm intelligence. Built by @jbarnes850
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6/7: The roadmap:.1. Infrastructure foundation (✓).2. Default for all NEAR AI Hub agents (Soon).3. Platform integration tools (Now).4. Developer-friendly SDK (Soon).
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@CoinbaseDev @AnthropicAI @Replit @virtuals_io @latentholdings @Visa @Byte__AI @xmtp_ @sekoia_virtuals @openmind_agi @HeyElsaAI @hyperbolic_labs @trySkyfire Updated graphic!
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4/4/: Congratulations to the @deepseek_ai team and we look forward to unpacking your V3 paper next week. Join us for a deep technical discussion on this breakthrough in AI democratization!! -
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