Illia Polosukhin is a prominent AI researcher and the co-founder of NEAR Protocol, a leading blockchain platform focused on scalability, usability, and accessibility for developers and users. His expertise in AI and blockchain technology has positioned him as a key figure in the Web3 space, where he is known for advocating open-source development and decentralized applications.

Before NEAR, Polosukhin worked as a researcher at Google where he contributed to significant advances in deep learning and natural language processing. He co-authored the landmark paper, "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer model -- a groundbreaking architecture for natural language processing and various AI tasks.

Polosukhin has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, TIME, Wired, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, and TechCrunch.

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