Welcome to “The Europe AI Opportunity” — a new podcast mini-series brought to you by Sifted and Nebius, an AI infrastructure company building full-stack cloud for the AI era. Hosted by Daphné Leprince-Ringuet, senior reporter at Sifted, the series explores the potential of AI for Europe’s enterprises.

This episode was recorded live from VivaTech in Paris — France’s flagship tech event that brings together startups, corporates, and industrial leaders.

In this episode, the discussion focuses on whether, and how, European enterprises are adopting AI, and what this means for the AI startups they partner with — or, in some cases, don’t — and why that could be a problem.

Joining the conversation are:

• Claire Nouet, Co-founder and COO of Pathway
• Olivier Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of IAC.AI
• Anubhav Maheshwari, Head of Venture Partnerships at Nebius

We discussed the most effective ways to measure and communicate trust in AI systems, how existing frameworks can help validate new AI systems and how the technology poses new questions for mitigating risk.

Participating in the discussion were:

• Song Hwee Chia, deputy CEO of Temasek, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore.
• Sebastian Hallensleben, chief trust officer at AI test lab Resaro.
• Dr Kerim Galal, executive vice president at corporate development across strategy, AI, M&A and in-house consulting at German machine tools and laser tech company Trumpf.
• Dr Frauke Goll, managing director at the AppliedAI Institute for Europe GmbH.

This new podcast mini-series is brought to you by Sifted and Nebius, an AI infrastructure company building full-stack cloud for the AI era. Sifted's senior reporter, Daphné Leprince-Ringuet will be exploring the AI opportunity in Europe over the next three episodes.

This week, we’ll be unpacking Europe’s position in the AI race — its ambitions, gaps and what role infrastructure plays when it comes to building the next generation of AI leaders. To do so, we are joined by Roman Chernin, cofounder and chief business officer of Nebius, Thomas Wolf, cofounder and chief science officer at Hugging Face, and Jonas Andrulis, founder and CEO of Aleph Alpha.