Accelerating AI adoption in Europe

OpenAI and Allied for Startups today announced the release of the Hacktivate AI report⁠(opens in a new window)—a collection of 20 ideas to accelerate broad-based AI adoption in Europe and boost the bloc’s competitiveness. The release comes just days before the European Commission is expected to unveil its Apply AI Strategy, a plan to encourage the real use of AI across business and the public sector. 

There is already significant demand for OpenAI technology in Europe with EU Member States ranking amongst our top markets globally for subscribers, API developers and business customers. Every day, people, developers, institutions, start-ups and leading enterprises are using OpenAI’s tools—and primarily, our freely available tools—to create economic opportunities for themselves and others throughout the continent, from speeding up the development of life-saving medical treatments with Sanofi⁠(opens in a new window), to building a thriving European start-up ecosystem with a new generation of AI-fueled companies like Parloa and Pigment. 

We launched Hacktivate AI as a first-of-its-kind policy hackathon to build on the momentum of adoption and accelerate wider uptake. Last week in Brussels, 65 participants—including representatives from EU institutions and national governments, large enterprises, SMEs, startups, economists, and AI specialists—came together to design real, workable ideas to help Europe lead in AI.

The report compiles 20 ideas developed during the hackathon, from helping people learn new skills to thrive, to making it easier for every sector to use AI, and cutting red tape so Europe’s single market can really benefit.

Meanwhile, through initiatives like OpenAI Academy, which has already supported over 2 million people with free AI learning resources, we are investing in making AI skills more accessible. We are also working with governments and partners—from Germany to Greece—to boost AI adoption in the public sector, education, and beyond.