AiOnX has let its entire Dublin-area campus before it is even finished. The investor behind it, Max-Hervé George, has been quietly assembling Europe’s scarcest data center assets since 2019. The wait is starting to pay.
Privacy, security and robustness are not free features. New research shows they can multiply AI training costs and reduce model accuracy if founders wait too long to plan for them.
Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.
Steven Bartlett invested a seven-figure sum in Maggie Sellers Reum’s “Hot Smart Rich” podcast and also became an active mentor, not just a financial backer.
While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into everyday life.