AI Marketplace
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an important key to innovative and efficient product creation. Whether automating technology scouting or optimising design data - the potential of artificial intelligence in product development is manifold. However, companies often lack sufficient expertise to unlock these potentials. Providers of AI applications, on the other hand, do not have access to domain knowledge to develop solutions for concrete problems of companies.
With the AI Marketplace, we are creating an ecosystem that is unique in Germany and that builds precisely this bridge between AI providers and users. The lynchpin is the AI Marketplace platform of the same name, where providers, users and experts can jointly develop and exchange AI solutions. Our vision is a marketplace that intelligently links platform users according to their supply and demand profile, while at the same time providing a protected space for secure data exchange and data sovereignty. In addition, an app store for AI applications that can be used directly by companies will be created, as well as a toolkit that will allow individual AI components to be configured into complete solutions tailored to the needs of individual companies.
The guarantee for success is our project consortium of 19 research institutions, networks and companies, with the technology cluster it' OWL as its nucleus. We rely on the expertise of the AI providers Cognitive Interaction Technology Cluster of Excellence CITEC, Institute for Industrial Information Technology and Ubermetrics, as well as on the excellence of the AI users CLAAS, Diebold Nixdorf, Düspohl, Hella Gutmann and Westaflex. The platform core consists of the organisations Contact Software, the Fraunhofer Institutes IEM, IOSB-INA and IPK, the FIWARE Foundation, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, inno-focus businessconsulting, the International Data Spaces Association, prostep ivip e.V. and UNITY AG.
The AI Marketplace project is funded from January 2020 to December 2022 in the innovation competition "Artificial intelligence as a driver for economically relevant ecosystems" of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).