🚀 Near Protocol is shooting for the stars with its plan to build the world's largest open-source AI model, announced at the Redacted conference in Bangkok. This 1.4 trillion parameter behemoth will dwarf Meta's Llama model, and it's all thanks to a global crowd of contributors.

- Participants can dive in with a 500 million parameter model starting Nov. 10.

- The project will grow through seven models, rewarding top contributors.

- Funded by token sales, the AI will monetize inferences to repay tokenholders.

Near's AI ambitions are as big as their GPUs, and with privacy in mind, decentralized AI might just be the hero we need!