The Sequence Chat #835: Illia Polosukhin on NEAR AI, Authoring the Transformer Paper and Decentralized and Private AI
A chat about decentralized, private AI and the evolution of frontier models.
Today, The Sequence welcomes Illia Polosukhin. As a key figure at the inception of the transformer model, Illia joins us to explore his new frontier: building a private, decentralized AI ecosystem.
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The strongest version of this narrative positions decentralized AI as a necessary evolution to address privacy, scalability, and user ownership challenges in the current AI landscape. Polosukhin's credentials—co-authoring the transformer paper and building scalable blockchain infrastructure—lend credibility to his vision of a future where smaller, specialized models and agent-driven commerce dominate. His emphasis on confidential computing and blockchain as invisible infrastructure aligns with a...
