@prior_labs to be acquired by @SAP.. News developing

@SAP just agreed to acquire @prior_labs the Freiburg startup that built an entirely different kind of AI, one designed not for language but for the structured data that actually runs enterprise operations. Tables. Numbers. Statistics. The stuff LLMs notoriously struggle with. The deal comes with a €1 billion commitment over four years and a mandate for Prior Labs to operate independently. SAP's CTO Philipp Herzig put it plainly: the greatest untapped opportunity in enterprise AI was never large language models. It was the structured data underneath them. Prior Labs' TabPFN-2.6 currently tops the TabArena benchmark for tabular AI and matches the accuracy of a four-hour machine learning pipeline in a single inference, instantly, with no model retraining. Three million open-source downloads. Published in Nature. Backed by Yann LeCun. Founded in 2024. Seed round of €9 million in February 2025. Acquired 15 months later. That is either the fastest-moving exit in European AI or a sign of how urgently the enterprise software incumbents need to move. Probably both. the-sourcecode.com/startups/sap-a… #EnterpriseAI #SAP #PriorLabs #TabularAI #AIAcquisition