NEAR AI
NEAR AI builds confidential, verifiable AI infrastructure using hardware-enforced Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), enabling enterprises and governments to run sensitive AI workloads with cryptographic privacy guarantees.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2017
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Illia Polosukhin
About
NEAR AI is building the infrastructure for a user-owned AI economy. Founded by former Google Research team member Illia Polosukhin, the company operates out of San Francisco and is legally structured as Jasnah Inc., DBA as NEAR AI. The company runs sensitive AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and AI applications using hardware-enforced enclaves where requests are confidential by design and outputs are independently verifiable. The company offers a suite of products including IronClaw, an open-source AI agent framework built for secure autonomous task execution; NEAR AI Cloud, a confidential inference platform using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) with Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Computing; and an Agent Marketplace for deploying AI agents in finance, legal, ops, research, and security workflows. NEAR AI is backed by key contributors from the NEAR Foundation and has joined the NVIDIA Inception Program. The company serves production customers including Brave, Venice, Financial Autopilot, and the Bermuda Government, collectively serving over 100 million users.
LLM Inference Engineer
Architect and maintain high-traffic LLM serving systems, optimizing throughput and latency using inference engines like SGLang, vLLM, and TensorRT alongside GPU programming tools like CUDA and PyTorch.