Evidence-backed European AI register
Prior Labs
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Prior Labs.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- EU headquarters
- Headquarters country
- Germany
- Headquarters city
- Freiburg
- Legal entity
- GmbH
- Ownership
- subsidiary of SAP SE — acquisition closed 17 Jul 2026; continues to operate as an independent entity
- Founded
- 2024
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
Prior Labs will continue to be Prior Labs: same brand, same team, same research mission, same headquarters in Freiburg with our offices in Berlin and New York.
Prior Labs' own post-acquisition blog post explicitly states the company keeps its headquarters in Freiburg, distinguishing it from offices in Berlin and New York. This directly resolves the acquisition ambiguity created by the 2026 SAP acquisition.
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
- ~11M (small by design — prior-data fitted network)
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- n/a — tabular data (classification and regression)
- Licence
- custom Prior Labs licence (source-available, derived from Apache-2.0 with additional terms); check repo
- Release
- 2025-01
- TabPFN-TS (time series) and TabPFN v1
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- n/a — tabular / time series
- Licence
- custom Prior Labs licence
- Release
- 2023–2025
Profile note
The most academically decorated German model lab of the current cycle: TabPFN is a Nature-published tabular foundation model that reaches state of the art at ~11M parameters, inverting the scale-is-everything assumption. Bought by SAP in 2026 for >€1B over four years to anchor a European frontier AI lab for structured business data. Recorded separately from SAP because it continues to operate independently and publishes its own weights.
Record sources
- https://news.sap.com/2026/05/sap-to-acquire-prior-labs-establish-frontier-ai-lab-europe/
- https://priorlabs.ai/
- https://huggingface.co/Prior-Labs
- https://thenextweb.com/news/sap-prior-labs-acquisition-tabular-foundation-model
- https://www.8seneca.com/en/blog/technology/sap-prior-labs-acquisition-tabpfn-tabular-foundation-models