NEAR Protocol launches AI privacy computing solution with hardware-level encryption and on-chain verification

[Chain News] NEAR Protocol has recently launched two new things, and they sound pretty interesting.

One is called NEAR AI Cloud Service, which focuses on privacy and security. Every time you send a request, it runs on Intel TDX and NVIDIA confidential computing hardware—your data is processed in a sealed and isolated environment, completely invisible from the outside. What’s even cooler is that after each inference, it generates an encrypted proof to show that the model actually ran the intended code without any tampering.

The other is a private chat feature built on top of this cloud service. Whether for everyday Q&A or research, your privacy is given a verifiable level of protection.

To be honest, with AI applications booming right now, privacy concerns have always been troubling. NEAR’s move to combine blockchain verifiability with hardware-level encryption offers a pretty solid solution.