Accelerating applied AI in Sweden

AI Sweden is the Swedish national center for applied artificial intelligence.

Our mission is to accelerate the use of AI for the benefit of our society, our competitiveness, and for everyone living in Sweden. We are broadly funded and not for profit, and we collaborate with speed and boldness in everything we do with our over 170 partners from the private and public sectors as well as academia.

Annika Elfström appointed Acting Managing Director for AI Sweden

AI Sweden is now going into its eighth year of operation. With strong and successful growth, Sweden's national AI center today gathers 170+ partners from the private and public sector as well as academia, in its mission to accelerate the use of AI in Sweden. As a natural step into the next phase, Martin Svensson has now decided to hand over the role of Managing Director to Annika Elfström, who will be acting MD. Martin Svensson will continue to contribute his expertise to AI Sweden in a strategic position as Senior Advisor during a transition period.

Rows of black server racks with colorful cables in a bright, modern data center with glass floor panels. Eu-flag with the text 'Co-funded by the European Union'

OpenEuroLLM secures strategic access to multiple supercomputers: A milestone for European language models

OpenEuroLLM is set to develop high-performance language models for Europe. The major European collaborative project has now been granted 10 million GPU hours on Europe’s most powerful supercomputers. "This is the fuel we need," says Magnus Sahlgren, Head of Research, NLU, at AI Sweden.

Group discussion about accelerating AI usage in Sweden during an AI Sweden round table meeting.

How to strengthen Swedish innovation - leading companies and parliamentarians in dialogue on AI

How can we boost AI-driven innovation in Swedish business? This question was discussed when AI Sweden gathered leading companies and Social Democratic Members of Parliament (MPs) for an exclusive roundtable talk about which initiatives, measures, and investments could have the greatest impact on Swedish innovation capacity.

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AI Sweden Podcast

Meet some of Sweden's foremost experts in AI and hear what they believe you as a leader and manager need to know about artificial intelligence. Hosted by our own Peter Kurzwelly and Anders Thoresson. (In Swedish)