Evidence-backed European AI register
DFKI — German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for DFKI — German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- GmbH — non-profit public-private partnership research body
- Ownership
- public research; shareholders include the German federal states, Fraunhofer, and industrial partners (Google, Microsoft, SAP, BMW, Bosch, Airbus and others)
- Founded
- 1988
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
No qualifying headquarters passage was promoted.
The source view lists multiple sites and a primary city, but no current first-party headquarters wording was captured.
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Model listings
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 8B
- Context
- 8,192 tokens
- Languages
- German
- Licence
- Llama-3 Community Licence
- Release
- 2024-05
- Various task-specific NLP/vision models via DFKI-NLP and the Competence Center Generative AI
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- German, English, multilingual
- Licence
- varies by repo (mostly permissive open source)
- Release
- unknown
Profile note
The largest AI research centre in Germany by headcount and one of the largest in the world, but it is not a foundation-model lab in its own right: it contributes data curation, evaluation and methods to consortium models (OpenGPT-X/Teuken, Occiglot, Llama3-German-8B) rather than training and serving its own frontier models. Its Competence Center Generative AI focuses on local, data-protection-compliant models and LLM transparency. No models of its own and no pricing — recorded because it is a structural node in the German model ecosystem.