During their visit, the federal and state representatives gained insight into the work of the Tübingen AI Center. Using the example of an AI solution for personalized education, the researchers demonstrated how public research and the private digital economy can jointly develop innovative open source solutions for the benefit of society. The example shows how the combination of research, product development expertise and open source can make future innovations in public infrastructure cost-effective, accessible and effective. The Tübingen AI Center is also part of the OpenEuroLLM consortium, which has just started to develop an open source language model that is at least comparable to Deepseek and can handle all European languages. The research center is also proving to be an innovation accelerator in the start-up sector. Since February, the Polybot harvesting robot project has been supported by SPRIND, the Federal Agency for Leap Innovations.

Following the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, the researchers' main concern was to discuss the key points of a national AI strategy, which is urgently needed to secure Europe's sovereignty and competitiveness. There was agreement on the common goal of advancing artificial intelligence applications in as many areas of life as possible for the benefit of society in Germany and Europe.

Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. (Dōshisha) Karla Pollmann, Rector of the University of Tübingen, was represented at the meeting by Vice Rector Professor Samuel Wagner. On the occasion of the high-ranking visit from Berlin and Stuttgart, she said: "The University of Tübingen, together with the Tübingen AI Center, the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and other partners and donors, stands for cutting-edge research in the field of AI. This is made possible by the many top-class scientists here in Cyber Valley, who are working on interdisciplinary solutions to important problems thanks to funding from the federal and state governments. It is crucial that we work together with policymakers to identify effective measures to better address the challenges facing society.