Founder of a listed tool
Illia Polosukhin
Founder, NEAR AI; co-founder, NEAR Protocol, named behind the IronClaw listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Illia builds
IronClaw B · Personal assistants
IronClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant written in Rust by NEAR AI. The owner runs it as a local service with a web interface, Slack and Telegram channels, Google and GitHub extensions, scheduled automations and persistent memory.
Founder, NEAR AI; co-founder, NEAR Protocol, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Sergey Astretsov Head of Product
Questions
Who is Illia Polosukhin?
Illia Polosukhin founded NEAR AI and co-founded NEAR Protocol, the blockchain platform. At Google he co-authored "Attention Is All You Need", the 2017 paper credited with introducing the transformer architecture behind modern large language models.
What does NEAR AI make?
Anchor Terminal lists IronClaw from NEAR AI. IronClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant written in Rust by NEAR AI. The owner runs it as a local service with a web interface, Slack and Telegram channels, Google and GitHub extensions, scheduled automations and persistent memory.
How are Illia's tools graded?
IronClaw is graded B, 66.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://near.ai/company
- https://near.ai/blog/introducing-ironclaw-1-0
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/illia-polosukhin-77b6538/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/illia-polosukhin-77b6538
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeyastretsov/details/experience/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergeyastretsov
- https://www.ironclaw.com/
- https://www.ironclaw.com
- https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw
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