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Illia Polosukhin

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1100 total appearances

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

general AI space and kind of how crypto is contributing and bringing properties.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

But I think, yeah, like it'll take some time to mend kind of the bed wrap.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And I mean, part of the reason why I moved to NSF is actually been doing that kind of on a social scene here.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Diplomacy?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Yeah, I mean, like effectively bringing together people across, and like in AI, there's also Rift internally, which is like closed source versus open source, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And like there's a bunch of AI researchers who believe open source is dangerous and, you know, it should be all super controlled and kind of, you know.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

that individual is the only way to do things, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And so there's also just like that gap and like crypto is even further in open source spectrum, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So really working on kind of bringing those pieces together in a positive way, as well as, you know, bringing products and really showcasing now to companies is like, hey,

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

There is an alternative that is private.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

You don't need to do your data that is capable with iron claw that you can trust, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So like showcasing products that actually can bridge this gap as well.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Yeah, I think there are probably a few dimensions.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

One is if you're trying to build a business right now, the network effects are... Like the software differentiation is becoming non-existent, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

It's distribution and network effects that are kind of important.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And so I think, yeah, thinking crypto is...

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Crypto intersection of AI is where you can create interesting network effects.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

It's where you can create kind of new ways to capture that.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And so I think this is where, you know, everything from like verticalized marketplaces to kind of specific ways of capturing reputation.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

What we discussed, like how do you bridge...