Who’s behind this?
Europe has the talent, the research heritage, and the values to lead in AI. What has been missing is the infrastructure to turn those strengths into frontier breakthroughs.
Next Frontier AI changes that.
A pan-European initiative run by SPRIND
Launched by Germany, France, and the European Commission at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in November 2025, this initiative brings together governments, institutions, and partners to create the conditions for radical innovation. It's not about competing with individual nations or organisations, it's about building what none of us could achieve alone.
As the best-funded non-profit Frontier AI initiative in the world, backed by a high-level group of advisors, our mission is clear: to establish Europe as the birthplace of the next generation of AI.
- Non-dilutive challenge funding
- €125M
- Perspective in follow-on investment
- €1B
- Frontier AI, built in Europe
- 3 Labs
SPRIND is the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. Think of us as a state-backed deep-tech fund and company builder: we deploy public money with a venture mindset, take real technical risk, and are explicitly mandated to try things that can fail. For Next Frontier AI, SPRIND coordinates a wider European coalition of state actors, industry partners, compute providers, investors, and a heavyweight jury of AI builders. We're here to back wildly ambitious projects that are too bold for conventional funding.
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