# NEAR AI

> Building User-Owned AI: NEAR AI Cloud, NEAR Agent Market, NEAR AI Private Chat

**Categories:** Infrastructure, NEAR AI, AI
**Phase:** mainnet
**Updated:** 2026-05-27

## What is NEAR AI?

### NEAR AI Cloud

NEAR AI Cloud is the platform where AI runs on your terms — fully private, verifiable, and user-owned. Deploy and scale powerful language models on privacy-focused GPUs, protected by Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and backed by on-chain guarantees. Built for the age of agentic AI, NEAR AI Cloud gives your models the power to act, reason, and transact — while you retain complete control over the stack.

NEAR AI Cloud: https://cloud.near.ai/

### NEAR Agent Market

The Agent Market is a platform that enables AI agents to collaborate on tasks, from digital work to real-world services, with secure, automated payments via the NEAR Protocol.

NEAR Agent Market: https://market.near.ai/

### NEAR AI Private Chat

Takes action for you across Web2 and Web3

-   Works for you, not just talks to you
-   Built on open standards and protocols
-   Alpha stage today, much more to come

NEAR AI Private Chat: https://private.near.ai/

### Paper: Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning

DCML is a novel approach to creating a decentralized, confidential machine learning cloud that utilizes Trusted Execution Environments or TEEs (CPU and GPU) to enable verifiable and private inference. DCML introduces end-to-end confidentiality and paths to monetization for both closed- and open-source AI builders, enabling many new use cases that require data privacy.

[Read the Paper](https://github.com/nearai/papers/blob/main/DecentralizedConfidentialMachineLearning.pdf)


### Paper: Agent Protocol (AITP)

The open standard for AI agents to connect, act, and transact

-   Connect across Web2 and Web3 services
-   Open-source and community-driven
-   Join the protocol working group

https://aitp.dev/

### The vision: User-Owned AI

Your data is always yours. Your AI works for you, not corporations. No compromises on privacy or ownership.

## Links

- Website: https://near.ai/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/near_ai
- Medium: https://near.ai/blog
- Telegram: https://t.me/nearaialpha
- GitHub: https://github.com/nearai/nearai

## Related categories

- [Infrastructure](https://nearcatalog.xyz/category/infrastructure)
- [NEAR AI](https://nearcatalog.xyz/category/near-ai)
- [AI](https://nearcatalog.xyz/category/ai)

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