E 778 — Sovereign AI, Ownership and Europe's Money — Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™

E 778 — Sovereign AI, Ownership and Europe's Money

No blockchain round made our verified September list — this feed gets our monthly news because the ownership question is the one this audience asks first: who controls the platform. September: NVIDIA agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93B, and Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive agreement.

Why this episode matters: Decentralisation starts with a simple test: who holds the equity and who controls the infrastructure. This month answered that for European AI.

NVIDIA — to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B, closing expected in the first half of next year
Cohere and Aleph Alpha — definitive agreement; Handelsblatt reported about 90/10 ownership in April
STACKIT — the combined company delivers sovereign AI on Schwarz Group's cloud
Mistral AI — €3B round with Korean, American and European investors
KfW — more than 3 quarters of Q1 VC in German start-ups came from abroad

Chapters: [FINALISE POST-RECORD]

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Host: Joern Menninger, Frankfurt am Main — LinkedIn

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E 778 — Sovereign AI, Ownership and Europe&#039;s Money

E 778 — Sovereign AI, Ownership and Europe's Money