person
Illia Polosukhin
NEAR Protocol co-founder; Transformer co-author
Co-founder of NEAR Protocol; previously at Google Brain, where he co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need'.
current Co-founder, NEAR Protocol
past Research Scientist, Google Brain
Strategy positions
Open sourceendorses
Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyArgues open and decentralized infrastructure is the natural counterweight to corporate AI concentration; founded NEAR partly on this thesis.
Centralized AI poses risks no single regulator can solve. We need open infrastructure that lets users own their data and models.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.