Illia Polosukhin
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
The Decentralized Future of Private AI with Illia Polosukhin
- Published
- September 30, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 5m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 21, 2026
Discusses transformers.
Summary
In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI. Illia shares his unique journey from developing the Transformer architecture at Google to building the NEAR Protocol blockchain to solve global pay…
Show notes
In this episode, Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper and co-founder of Near AI, joins us to discuss his vision for building private, decentralized, and user-owned AI. Illia shares his unique journey from developing the Transformer architecture at Google to building the NEAR Protocol blockchain to solve global payment challenges, and now applying those decentralized principles back to AI. We explore how Near AI is creating a decentralized cloud that leve
Themes
- transformers