Bankless · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Companies like Brave, with over 100 million users, and Venice are integrating NEAR AI Cloud to offer AI inference with a focus on user privacy and self-sovereignty. This 'hub and spoke' model positions NEAR AI Cloud as a backend for human-first AI applications.
“Indeed, we are, Venice is using us if you select the end-to-end encryption mode, as well as Brave is now offering that as an option and kind of few others.”
“Brave has some three digit millions of users, I think. Over 100 million, yeah. over 100 million users. And so like inference, like a prompt, models are integrated into the Brave browser and that's using the Near AI cloud model.”
“All of these products, Brave and Venice, are very human-oriented, self-sovereignty-oriented. Brave was always about protecting the user rather than enabling the ads.”