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Lidl parent company and Deutsche Bahn lay the foundations for a European AI platform


The large language models (LLMs) that make the heart of AI pump need to be fed with huge amounts of data. In the field of AI, it is invariably the companies based in the United States that call the shots, but The German railway company Deutsche Bahn and Schwarz Gruppe, the parent company of Lidl, have teamed up to give AI a boost on European soil by launching a platform called “DataHub Europe”.

This platformpresented this week in Frankfurt (Germany) within the framework of the DE.DIGITAL event, It is specifically designed to make training AI models easier and safer. Behind this project are Schwarz Digits, the digital division of Schwarze Gruppe (Lidl and Kaufland), and Deutsche Bahn.

«DataHub Europe» hatches with the ultimate goal of using the data contained in this platform to “train AI models on a more secure infrastructure” and then quickly and safely integrate specific artificial intelligence solutions into multiple business applications within companies. “‘DataHub Europe’ will close an important gap in the European Union by making quality data available to companies for training AI models,” underlines Volker Wissing, Minister of Digital Affairs and Transport of Germany. “This platform will take the training of AI models in our industry to another level,” he asserts.

Even though the project is led by Deutsche Bahn and Schwarze Gruppe, the platform has the support of multiple different players. The data stored on the “DataHub Europe” platform is provided by the prestigious German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung y DvH Media (Business Week y Handelsblatt), among other publishers. And in the technological section, the platform has the support of the company specialized in AI Aleph Alpha, the cloud computing service provider Stackit, the German Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (DFKI) and the Technical University of Darmstadt .

With the help of “DataHub Europe” Germany wants to give wings to its leadership in the field of AI

The German Executive emphasizes that “DataHub Europe” is only the first of many initiatives that will be carried out in the coming years with the ultimate goal of make Germany the leading country in AI on European soil.

Even though Germany is a country rich in AI experts, there is, however, a more than notable deficit in the implementation of this technology in companies. And among the most cutting-edge companies in the field of AI there is no German company.

Robert Habeck, German Economy Minister, admits that competition in the field of AI is absolutely fierce, but the Government is determined to support and facilitate the creation of companies in this sector that can compete head to head with other global companies. .

USAwhere companies such as OpenAI and Google are based, and Chinathe homeland of Baidu and Alibaba, They have the reputation of being the leading countries in the field of AI. In Europe, some of the most important companies in the AI ​​field are Mistral AI and Contentsquare (France) and Aleph Alpha and DeepL (Germany).



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