According to Foresight News, NEAR founder Illia Polosukhin released the master plan for the R&D lab NEAR AI. NEAR AI will achieve open source and user-owned AGI in three phases: AI Developer (teaching machines to code), AI Researcher (using AI Developer to teach machines to conduct research), and using AI researchers to advance science and move towards universal AGI shared by all.
Illia Polosukhin said that the development of NEAR AI will always be open source, providing software, data sets and models to the wider community to further develop other products. They will require a range of infrastructure beyond the core blockchain primitives: peer-to-peer communication, edge data and reasoning, decentralized data storage, private computing, and more. All of this is only possible by participating in the entire NEAR ecosystem and leveraging the existing NEAR token economy.
