What if the next Frontier AI Lab was built in the Nordics?

What is Next Frontier AI?

SPRIND (Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation) is launching a €125M equity-free challenge to support up to 10 frontier AI teams over 24 months.

Up to three winners will then receive support to raise approximately €1B each to scale their labs.

Calling Nordic Builders, Innovators and Entrepreneurs

We are joining forces with SPRIND to invite the Nordic ecosystem – together with Pioneer Centre AI (P1), AI Sweden, NORA – The Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium, Aalto University, and others – to participate!

We are looking for:

• Researchers working on foundations models, agentic systems, or next-generation AI architectures
• PhD students or postdocs in ML/AI with ambitions beyond academia
• Engineers from frontier labs (DeepMind, Meta AI, etc.) considering starting their own lab
• Teams exploring radically new approaches (SSMs, world models, neuro-symbolic AI, efficient training paradigms)
• Individuals at big labs asking, “Could I do this myself?”