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Illia Polosukhin

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Co-founder at NEARFounder at NEAR AI

🇺🇦 Ukrainian

Polosukhin co-authored the Transformer paper at Google before co-founding NEAR Protocol. He has since returned directly to AI through NEAR AI, which develops confidential infrastructure for user-owned agents and models while drawing on the NEAR ecosystem.

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Background

Current roles
Co-founder 2017-present
Founder
Previously
2014-2017Researcher,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: July 23, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26304,832255,414205,996Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
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