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SAP Acquires Prior Labs, Which Continues as Independent Frontier AI Lab

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Many users are excited about SAP acquiring Prior Labs because the partnership provides enormous scale and tabular data to build better models while enabling long-term high-risk research moonshots as an independent lab.

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FH Frank Hutter@FrankRHutter

2:13 AM · Jul 17, 2026

2/4 Scale: @SAP is the perfect partner, with an enormous scale of tabular data and distribution. This will allow us to build dramatically better models and directly deploy them at scale. We’ll also substantially scale up the team; this is the time to join!

FH Frank Hutter@FrankRHutter

2:13 AM · Jul 17, 2026

4/4 Huge thanks to everyone at @prior_labs, @UniFreiburg, @ELLISInst_Tue and the community that got us here. Let’s go and take things to the next level! Founders’ statement: https://priorlabs.ai/blog-posts/priorlabs-sap

FH Frank Hutter@FrankRHutter

2:13 AM · Jul 17, 2026

Today it is official: our acquisition by SAP has closed. Prior Labs continues as an independent frontier AI lab - same team, same offices, same mission, open models, backed by €1B+. What changes? The scale and the planning horizon. 🧵 1/4

FH Frank Hutter@FrankRHutter

2:13 AM · Jul 17, 2026

3/4 Planning horizon: We can now boldly tackle long-term high-risk high-gain research moonshots. As an 18-month old startup you cannot tackle problems that require years of research; as a frontier AI lab, now we can.

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FH Frank Hutter@FrankRHutter

2:57 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@prior_labs @UniFreiburg @ELLISInst_Tue Here is the team that made this happen!

FH Frank Hutter@FrankRHutter

2:13 AM · Jul 17, 2026

3/4 Planning horizon: We can now boldly tackle long-term high-risk high-gain research moonshots. As an 18-month old startup you cannot tackle problems that require years of research; as a frontier AI lab, now we can.

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FH Frank Hutter@FrankRHutter

2:57 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@prior_labs @UniFreiburg @ELLISInst_Tue Here is the team that made this happen!

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Many users are excited about SAP acquiring Prior Labs because the partnership provides enormous scale and tabular data to build better models while enabling long-term high-risk research moonshots as an independent lab.

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