NEAR 协议公布计划成为人工智能研究和应用的“最佳生态系统”

NEAR Protocol 联合创始人 Illia Polosukhin 公布了使其成为“下一代人工智能研究和应用的最佳生态系统”的计划。

NEAR Protocol, a layer 1 blockchain, is venturing into the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of fostering user-owned AI and becoming a hub for the next generation of AI research and applications.

NEAR Protocol 是第 1 层区块链，正在进军人工智能 (AI) 领域，其目标是培育用户拥有的人工智能并成为下一代人工智能研究和应用的中心。

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, outlined the vision in a recent blog post. NEAR, initially founded as an AI company, later shifted towards blockchain and payments solutions. Now, the chain is seeking to combine the two technologies.

NEAR Protocol 联合创始人 Illia Polosukhin 在最近的一篇博客文章中概述了这一愿景。 NEAR 最初是一家人工智能公司，后来转向区块链和支付解决方案。现在，该连锁店正在寻求将这两种技术结合起来。

“We started NEAR as an AI company because we believe that user-owned AI is the next frontier for humanity,” wrote Polosukhin. “We do not want to live in a world where a few mega-corporations control the most powerful human resource: intelligence.”

“我们创办 NEAR 是一家人工智能公司，因为我们相信用户拥有的人工智能是人类的下一个前沿，”Polosukhin 写道。 “我们不想生活在一个由少数大公司控制最强大的人力资源：情报的世界。”

According to the co-founder, the goal is to create a decentralized and collaborative ecosystem for AI research and applications, as opposed to the centralized and closed industry that currently dominates Web2.

据联合创始人介绍，我们的目标是为人工智能研究和应用创建一个去中心化和协作的生态系统，而不是目前主导 Web2 的中心化和封闭行业。

“We want to enable a new generation of AI researchers and builders to create user-owned AI applications at scale, and we believe that NEAR can provide the best ecosystem for this,” added Polosukhin.

“我们希望让新一代人工智能研究人员和构建者能够大规模创建用户拥有的人工智能应用程序，我们相信 NEAR 可以为此提供最佳的生态系统，”Polosukhin 补充道。

The NEAR Foundation, together with its research and development unit led by Polosukhin and Alex Skidanov, another co-founder, will provide investment and incubation services for AI-related research and applications.

NEAR 基金会及其由 Polosukhin 和另一位联合创始人 Alex Skidanov 领导的研发部门将为人工智能相关研究和应用提供投资和孵化服务。

“The NEAR Foundation will provide funding, mentorship, and technical support to promising projects at the intersection of AI and blockchain,” stated the blog post.

博文称：“NEAR 基金会将为人工智能和区块链交叉领域有前景的项目提供资金、指导和技术支持。”

The foundation’s equity-free accelerator, Horizon, is currently accepting applications for its next cohort, which will begin in September 2024. The accelerator is designed to support early-stage startups building on NEAR.

该基金会的无股权加速器 Horizo​​n 目前正在接受下一批项目的申请，该项目将于 2024 年 9 月开始。该加速器旨在支持基于 NEAR 的早期初创公司。

“We are excited to see what the community can build together and to support the next generation of AI applications on NEAR,” concluded the post.

“我们很高兴看到社区可以共同构建并支持 NEAR 上的下一代人工智能应用程序，”帖子总结道。

The NEAR token ($NEAR) showed a slight response to the announcement, rising 3.5% and trading at $3.94 at the time of writing. The token has seen a significant rally over the past year, surging over 400%.

NEAR 代币（$NEAR）对该公告反应轻微，上涨 3.5%，截至撰写本文时交易价格为 3.94 美元。该代币在过去一年中大幅上涨，飙升超过 400%。