Illia Polosukhin: This Is The Biggest Opportunity in AI

The Rollup · Sep 21, 2025 · 43m

In today's first episode of AI Supercycle, our premiere AI show, Illia Polosukhin, a co-creator of transformers at Google and NEAR co-founder, joins us to unveil the biggest trend in AI over the next 5 years:

- Why OpenAI Reading Your Chats Is Just The Beginning

- The AOL Monopoly Problem Coming to AI

- How "Sleeper Agents" Hide in Your LLMs

- NEAR's Private, Verifiable AI Solution

- Encrypted Model Weights & User-Owned Data

- Why Blockchain Is Essential for AI Trust

Let’s dive in.

The Rollup

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𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼…