According to BlockBeats, the price of NEAR Protocol (NEAR) has surged past $5.2, reaching a current price of $5.22, with a 24-hour increase of 24%. This comes as NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin is set to attend the GTC24 conference, participating in a keynote speech and panel discussion on the topic of 'Transforming AI'. NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang and seven other authors of the paper 'Attention is all you need' will also be present at the event.