NEAR Protocol: NEAR AI Cloud powers Brave Leo's private AI chats - 15 Oct 2026

NEAR AI Cloud powers Brave Leo using GLM 5.3 Flash. Prompts are encrypted in the browser and decrypted only inside NEAR AI's hardware enclave, where the service processes the assistant's chats.The integration brings NEAR's private AI service to a browser partner, giving its encrypted computing infrastructure a live use in Brave's assistant. The deal does not give the NEAR token a direct economic role.Brave Leo now runs on private AI inference from NEAR AI Cloud, by .Pick GLM 5.3 Flash in Leo and your chat is end-to-end encrypted into a hardware enclave (TEE). can't read it. NEAR AI can't read it. The cloud host can't either. 🧵