According to Foresight News, Near founders Illia Polosukhin and Alex Skidanov established a research and development laboratory, NEAR AI, which will first build an "AI Developer" to solve the core problem of building end-to-end Web3 applications based on user intent. In addition, the NEAR Foundation has also established an incubator and investment department HZN focusing on artificial intelligence projects to provide support for early Web3 x AI projects.