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NEAR was founded in 2018 by Illia Polosukhin and Alexander Skidanov. As students, they both placed highly in the International Collegiate Programming Competition at the ICPC World Finals, with Alex winning a gold medal. Alex worked as a software engineer at Microsoft, while Illia worked in engineering at Google, spending a lot of time on its TensorFlow machine learning platform. They met while working on unrelated jobs, and the problem of machine learning brought them together.

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