Aleph Alpha founder on open source: “Sovereignty is critical to me”

At the end of 2022, California-based OpenAI introduced its ChatGPT AI software. Today, 100 million people use an AI service several times a week. Never before has an online show achieved such success in such a short period of time. OpenAI has been provisionally valued at $86 billion (about 79 billion euros), which is also a success for the software company Microsoft, which invested $13 billion (twelve billion euros) in the startup and is now its majority owner.

There is a gold rush in the global economy not seen since the dawn of the Internet age: industrialized countries, investors and companies are investing billions upon billions in developing artificial intelligence because they expect it to achieve unprecedented leaps in productivity.

Jonas Andrulis, head of Heidelberg's Aleph Alpha, one of the two leading AI companies, explains how Germany, and especially its European counterpart OpenAI, can assert itself in the global struggle for status and weight in the new major discipline of AI. Continent business. Its new head of strategy, Jan Hiserich, is also discussed for the first time.

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Aleph Alpha receives approximately €500 million in funding

world: Mr. Andrulis, Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann described Alif Alpha as “Europe's bearer of hope”, and Robert Habeck speaks of it as a “crazy success story”. Two months ago, it also completed an amazing funding round. What is the company valuation on which trading is based and what is the size of your stake?

At the end of 2022, California-based OpenAI introduced its ChatGPT AI software. Today, 100 million people use an AI service several times a week. Never before has an online show achieved such success in such a short period of time. OpenAI has been provisionally valued at $86 billion (about 79 billion euros), which is also a success for the software company Microsoft, which invested $13 billion (twelve billion euros) in the startup and is now its majority owner.

There is a gold rush in the global economy not seen since the dawn of the Internet age: industrialized countries, investors and companies are investing billions upon billions in developing artificial intelligence because they expect it to achieve unprecedented leaps in productivity.

Jonas Andrulis, head of Heidelberg's Aleph Alpha, one of the two leading AI companies, explains how Germany, and especially its European counterpart OpenAI, can assert itself in the global struggle for status and weight in the new major discipline of AI. Continent business. Its new head of strategy, Jan Hiserich, is also discussed for the first time.

Read also

Aleph Alpha receives approximately €500 million in funding

world: Mr. Andrulis, Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann described Alif Alpha as “Europe's bearer of hope”, and Robert Habeck speaks of it as a “crazy success story”. Two months ago, it also completed an amazing funding round. What is the company valuation on which trading is based and what is the size of your stake?