What Happens When Your AI Actually Belongs To You? With Illia Polosukhin
The Rollup
AI Cloud vs Private Chat Explained
Illia contrasts AI Cloud as developer infra with Private Chat as a demo product built on verifiable private inference.
An AI agent with no hidden motives or data harvesting dream or reality?
In this episode of AI Supercycle we sit down with Illia Polosukhin of NEAR Protocol to explore what happens when your AI actually belongs to you.
With $7B flowing through NEAR Intents and the launch of NEAR AI Cloud, Illia explains how hardware-enabled privacy unlocks AI agents that users actually own and control.
We discuss:
- NEAR AI Cloud & Private Chat Launch
- How Intel & Nvidia Hardware Enable True Privacy
- $7B Flowing Through NEAR Intents
- AI Agents Reshaping DeFi Yield
- Why Privacy Enables Better AI Products
- Web2 Integration Coming Soon
- Treasury Companies as Network Stakeholders
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:44 NEAR AI Cloud Launch
02:38 Privacy Zeitgeist Returns
04:38 Why Privacy Matters for AI
05:05 Hibachi Ad, Trezor Ad, Yeet Ad
06:08 Can NEAR Access Your Data?
07:27 Human Behavioral Trends with AI
10:12 AI Cloud Infrastructure Breakdown
12:35 Hibachi Ad, Treasure Ad
13:00 NEAR Intents $7B Volume
14:04 AI & Web2 Integration Alpha
16:41 Kalshi Ad, Halliday Ad, infiniFi Ad
17:55 AI as Your Personal Assistant
19:42 AI Agents & DeFi Yield
23:00 Does Silicon Valley Care About Privacy?
27:23 Memory & Context Management
29:40 Training Private AI Models
32:45 Infinitely Ad, Ecom Ad, Polymarket Ad
34:05 MCP & X402 Standards
37:12 2026: NEAR Token Economics
41:54 Treasury Companies & Network Alignment
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