The Rollup What Happens When Your AI Actually Belongs To You? With Illia Polosukhin
Dec 7, 2025
Illia Polosukhin, the Co-founder of NEAR Protocol and a leader in blockchain and decentralized AI, discusses groundbreaking concepts around ownership of AI. He explains how NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat prioritize user privacy, showcasing the significant $7B flowing through NEAR Intents. Illia reveals insights into how AI agents can reshape DeFi yield and their role in creating a personal AI that travels with users. He also highlights the integration of confidential computing from Intel and Nvidia to bolster privacy in AI applications.
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True Data Ownership Requires Privacy
- You cannot truly own data if large providers can use it for training and inference.
- Hardware-enabled privacy is required for real user data ownership and control.
Run Sensitive AI Inside Private Enclaves
- Use private inference infrastructure for any product touching sensitive information.
- Run AI inside verifiable enclaves to keep data private and enable richer integrations.
Hardware Plus Crypto Secures Private AI
- Confidential computing hardware is new and unlocks sealed execution of AI inference.
- Chain signatures and MPC complement hardware by enabling trustless key provisioning and payments.