Pierre Le Guen
Founding Engineer at NEAR AI
Building secure and private AI infrastructure that users fully own and control.
My mission is to advance the future of AI with a strong emphasis on privacy and security.
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Current Focus
I am currently 100% dedicated to NEAR AI, where I architected a confidential computing platform serving 1B+ tokens per day with strict data and model privacy guarantees. NEAR AI provides the infrastructure for running AI models in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), ensuring data privacy and model security.
Publications
- Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning - A comprehensive exploration of privacy-preserving machine learning techniques in decentralized environments. Read Paper
Open Source Contributions
- private-ml-sdk - SDK for running confidential ML workloads on NVIDIA Hoppers and Intel TDX. View on GitHub
- cloud-api - OpenAI-compatible API with hardware-enforced privacy - your prompts stay confidential. cloud.near.ai | View on GitHub
- chat-api - ChatGPT-like interface where your conversations remain truly private. private.near.ai | View on GitHub
- nearvault - Secure multisig treasury management for NEAR with customizable approval policies. nearvault.org | View on GitHub
Speaking Engagements
- Keynote: "Got Trust Issues? The Power of TEEs" at Encryption Day: ZK, FHE, & MPC during EthCC in Cannes on July 3, 2025. View Slides
- Keynote: "How to Achieve User-Owned AI?" at AI Agents Summit 2025 in Berlin on June 19, 2025. View Slides
- Keynote: "Towards User-Owned AI" at Telekom & Friends Vol. 2 during Berlin Blockchain Week on June 18, 2025.
- Keynote: "The Road to One Trillion Agents" at 499 & The Scaling DeAI Summit in Denver on February 28, 2025.
- Fireside: "Privacy in the Age of AI" at ETH Rising on February 28, 2025. Watch Video | View Slides
- Session: "How to Create and Host your AI Agent in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)" at The Road to One Trillion Agents (Day 2) on February 26, 2025. Watch Video
- Panel: "Panel on Private AI" at DePIN + AI Summit by CrunchDAO on February 25, 2025.
- Panel: "AI & Blockchain: Building Open-Source Intelligence" at Investing in AI | Supermoon, Peanut Trade, Bitte, Techstars, Forbes on November 12, 2024.
- Workshop: Build AI Agent using NEAR AI at Redacted on November 15, 2024. Watch Video