Next Frontier AI – Europe's Moonshot to Build Frontier AI Labs

Speaker: Mirko Holzer - SPRIND

Europe has world-class AI researchers and groundbreaking foundational research. Yet when it comes to building and deploying frontier models at scale, we've largely been on the sidelines — watching and using, but not shaping. Next Frontier AI is Germany's €125M initiative to change that via SPRIND - the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation: a competitive challenge to incubate three European Frontier AI Labs, each positioned to raise up to €1B. The goal? Leapfrog to the next S-curve of AI — and bring Europe back to the table.