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1Block 1 · Assistance & Knowledge Work

Level 1: General Assistants & Reasoning LLMs

Universal core models for text, logic & multimodality

ChatGPT by OpenAI is the world’s most popular AI system. It serves as a universal digital assistant for text, data analysis, and logical tasks.

Claude AI by Anthropic is an advanced language model praised worldwide for its exceptional language quality and superior logic.

DeepSeek is a groundbreaking open-source language model that performs on par with the best US models for complex mathematical tasks and programming.

Gemini is Google’s native AI ecosystem. Designed from the ground up to be multimodal, it seamlessly processes text, images, audio, and video.

Mistral Le Chat

Le Chat is the official AI assistant from Mistral AI, powered by the company's advanced European language models. The platform offers web search, document analysis, and multimodal interactions built on strict European data privacy standards.

Level 2: Search, Research & Knowledge Work

Real-time web search, source checking, dictation & autonomous desktop agents

Autonomous desktop agent from Anthropic. Reads local folders, edits files, and executes multi-step workflows in the background.

Scientific AI search engine that extracts answers directly from more than 200 million peer-reviewed studies.

AI search engine that automatically creates custom landing pages (Sparkpages) with neutral summaries for queries.

Glean is an AI-powered enterprise search platform that unifies knowledge across all company applications. It delivers highly relevant, context-aware answers while strictly enforcing existing user permissions.

Virtual learning assistant. Users upload their own PDFs/documents, and the AI answers exclusively based on that material.

Instead of a list of links, Perplexity delivers direct answers with precise footnotes and source references from the live web.

An AI dictation tool for desktop that instantly converts spoken language into flawless text and removes filler words.

Level 3: Text, Language & Translation

Translation, style checking, editing & writing assistance

World-leading AI translator from Germany. Captures nuances and specialist terminology more precisely than conventional providers.

Writing assistant that checks spelling, grammar, style and tone in real time — now extended with generative features that rewrite whole sentences or draft text on request.

An intelligent writing assistant that checks texts in real time for grammar, style, and spelling (in over 30 languages).

AI style, grammar and readability assistant with over 25 specialized reports (cliches, rhythm, sensory details).

Level 4: Language Learning & Speaking Coach

AI language tutors, pronunciation feedback & dialogue-based practice

Duolingo's top subscription tier with generative extras: 'Explain My Answer' reasons about mistakes in plain words, while 'Video Call with Lily' trains free speaking.

Dutch language-learning service covering 74 target languages that works purely through spoken conversation: speak, get corrected, receive a learning report.

Pronunciation coach with its own speech recognition: ELSA listens at the level of individual sounds, shows which vowel or consonant is off and drills exactly those spots.

An AI speaking coach for free conversation: Langua holds real dialogues in more than 20 languages using voices cloned from native speakers, corrects you as you go and turns new words into flashcards and practice stories.

Conversation-first language tutor for 15 target languages — German among them: Pingo remembers your level, mistakes and goals and picks up where you left off.

A language app built entirely around speaking out loud: the AI tutor holds free conversations, corrects pronunciation and sentence structure and turns that into a personal curriculum.

Level 5: Office, Notes & Presentations

Knowledge management, meeting notes, transcription & AI slides

AI note-taking assistant for video meetings. Records, transcribes, and automatically filters out tasks and key decisions.

Creates beautiful, interactive presentations or websites from a simple text document in under a minute.

KI-Wissensplattform, die verstreutes Firmenwissen durchsuchbar macht und Antworten direkt in Slack, Teams und im Helpdesk ausspielt — Grundlage für wirksame Self-Service-Deflection.

A self-organizing sticky-note repository. The AI automatically connects related notes without manual folder structures.

Napkin AI automatically converts written text into clear vector diagrams, flowcharts, and infographics. Built-in editing tools allow quick customization to match your corporate brand guidelines.

Integrates AI into the workspace platform. Fills databases, summarizes notes, and answers questions about company knowledge.

Joins Zoom/Teams meetings as a silent assistant, creates live transcripts, and generates meeting summaries.

Readwise Reader

Advanced "read-it-later" service. Brings together PDFs, articles, and YouTube transcripts with an integrated AI reading assistant.

Scribe automatically converts any digital workflow into a detailed step-by-step guide complete with screenshots and text. The AI-powered platform saves teams countless hours when creating user manuals and process documentation.

Superhuman AI is an ultra-fast, AI-powered email client designed for automatic drafting, thread summarization, and inbox prioritization. It helps teams and executives manage massive email volumes with unprecedented speed.

Combines to-do lists, mind maps, and autonomous AI agents in a collaborative project platform.

2Block 2 · Creation & Media

Level 6: Image, Graphics & Design

Photorealistic images, vectors, typography & layout

The only commercially 100% safe AI image generation. Trained exclusively on licensed Adobe Stock images.

Canva Magic Studio

The all-in-one design platform with integrated AI: swap image elements with a brush, generate presentations, and translate text.

Powerful open-source image generation model from Germany. Offers flawless photorealism and error-free text rendering within images.

An absolute specialist in typography and type design. Generates logos and posters with perfect spelling in the image.

Krea AI is an innovative platform for real-time AI image generation and high-resolution visual upscaling. Featuring an interactive live canvas, it transforms rough sketches and text prompts into detailed visual assets instantaneously.

Platform with enormous control for game assets, 3D textures, and concept art. Drawing in the "Realtime Canvas" is possible.

The undisputed quality standard in AI image generation for artistic and photorealistic graphics.

Photoroom is an AI-powered image editing tool designed for automatic background removal and studio-quality visual creation. It transforms simple smartphone photos into professional product shots for e-commerce and marketing.

An infinite digital drawing board specialized in true SVG vector graphics and consistent icon sets.

AI photo restoration: Remini reconstructs blurry, noisy or aged shots, sharpens faces, raises resolution and corrects colour — video included.

Level 7: Video & Motion

Generative clips, avatar videos & document-to-video

Colossyan Creator

Specialized AI video platform for e-learning. Makes creating training materials from PDFs with avatars incredibly easy.

Turns a single photo plus script into a talking, lip-synced avatar — API-first for automated doc-to-video pipelines.

Automatically converts PDF, PPTX, or a URL into an avatar video with lip-synced narration in 80+ languages — with an EU hosting option.

Turns on-screen clicks into finished step-by-step explainer videos with screenshots, text, and voice output.

An emerging video model (by Minimax) for amazingly sharp clips with extremely lifelike character facial expressions.

Hedra (Character-3)

Generates cinema-grade, emotionally expressive videos from one photo plus audio with precise lip sync and natural facial motion.

Spectacular AI avatar engine. In addition to avatar video creation, it also offers flawless video translation (video dubbing).

Generates a finished video from simple text commands, including script, stock footage, and subtitles.

Advanced model from Asia for especially long video sequences and extremely smooth, realistic action movements.

Luma Dream Machine

Ultra-fast video model for smooth motion, 3D physics, and realistic landscape rendering.

OpenAI’s groundbreaking video model for photorealistic and physically consistent scenes up to one minute long.

Analyzes long YouTube videos, finds the best moments, and automatically edits vertical Shorts/Reels including subtitles.

Automatically turns long texts or Zoom recordings into visual short videos with relevant B-roll and subtitles.

Creative platform for animating images, modifying image areas with video inpainting, and adding sound effects.

A global leader in cinematic video generation. Creates high-resolution, realistic video scenes from text or images.

Global market leader for AI videos with photorealistic avatars that deliver typed text lip-synced in 140 languages.

Builds a personal video clone (Replica) that reads scripts lip-synced or interacts with viewers in real-time video calls.

Affordable avatar video platform with 2,800+ voices and a generous free tier — ideal for quick prototypes from manuals or scripts.

Level 8: Audio, Voice & Music

Voice cloning, music composition, speech synthesis & audio editing

AIVA is an AI-powered music composer that creates tailored orchestral scores and soundtracks for various media projects. The platform allows detailed customization of styles and supports exporting MIDI and audio files.

Edits podcasts and videos like a text document: delete a word in the transcript = delete the word in the audio.

The most advanced speech AI on the market. Generates extremely human-like speech output, clones voices, and translates audio (dubbing).

AI toolkit for musicians: Moises splits any recording into stems — vocals, drums, bass, instruments — and detects chords, key and tempo automatically.

The leading read-aloud assistant (text-to-speech). Reads PDFs, emails, and books aloud with extremely natural voices.

Creates complete, radio-ready songs from a simple text request, including vocals, instruments, and lyrics.

Cutting-edge AI music model from former Google researchers. Offers extremely high sound quality and complex song structures.

3Block 3 · Engineering & Operations

Level 9: Coding & Software Development

Prompt-to-app, AI IDEs, CLI agents & codebase reasoning

Aider is a popular open-source command-line tool for AI pair programming directly in your local terminal. It seamlessly links LLMs to Git repositories for precise code changes and refactoring.

Brings a complete development environment into the browser. The AI installs packages and runs web apps directly in a virtual environment.

A CLI tool (command line). Works directly in the terminal, understands Git repositories, and completes tasks via command.

Uses your company’s entire code graph (Sourcegraph) to answer questions across gigantic repositories.

Continue is a leading open-source AI code assistant extension for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Developers can connect custom LLMs, leverage tab autocomplete, and refactor code directly inside their IDE.

Simplifies the creation of interactive web elements and website components. Builds code widgets from voice or text input.

The currently most popular AI-native code editor (based on VS Code). Understands the entire codebase and writes code across multiple files.

The first fully autonomous software engineer. Devin solves complete GitHub issues, reads documentation, tests, and codes without intervention.

The AI pioneer. Plugs into all common IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains) and completes lines of code live as you type.

Platform for “vibe coding”. Builds fully functional web applications from everyday language, including database and UI.

Qodo (formerly CodiumAI) is an AI-powered development platform that assists software engineers with unit test generation and code analysis. It integrates directly into popular IDEs to continuously improve software quality through automated testing and real-time feedback.

Autonomous developer agent in the browser. Plans the project, sets up databases, writes code, tests, and publishes.

Ultra-fast autocomplete assistant. Thanks to its gigantic context window, it delivers code suggestions with virtually no noticeable delay.

Generates copy-ready, modern UI code (React, Tailwind CSS) directly from text descriptions or design screenshots.

A fascinating playground: generates fictional yet fully usable websites and small browser games simply by entering a URL.

Windsurf (Codeium)

Agentic development environment. AI and developers work hand in hand; the AI recognizes intent and suggests the next step.

Level 10: Automation, Agents & AI Infrastructure

Workflows, multi-agent frameworks, local runners & no-code builders

Open-source framework for creating entire teams of autonomous AI agents that assign work to one another.

A professional open-source LLM app platform. Combines a workflow builder, RAG pipelines, and monitoring.

Visual low-code user interface for easily creating LangChain chatbots and RAG pipelines via drag and drop.

Groq is a high-performance inference platform that runs open-source language models with ultra-low latency using custom LPU chips. Developers can integrate models like Llama 3 or Mixtral into their applications at record speeds via API.

The "GitHub for AI". The world’s largest platform for free open-source AI models, datasets, and demos.

The global developer-standard framework for building AI applications, RAG systems, and company chatbots.

LlamaIndex is a leading data framework for connecting custom and structured data to Large Language Models for RAG applications. It provides developers with ready-to-use connectors and indexing tools to build context-augmented AI agents.

The most visually appealing drag-and-drop builder for connecting APIs. Connects ChatGPT with email and CRM, for example.

Powerful workflow automation platform. Connects hundreds of apps, databases, and AI models into automated processes.

Enables extremely simple downloading and running of powerful open-source AIs locally on your own computer.

Level 11: IT Operations, Networking & IT Service Management

AIOps, network AI, ITSM, ticketing, self-service & deployment

Agentic-AI-Plattform für IT- und Mitarbeiterservice: KI-Agenten übernehmen Ticketbearbeitung, Self-Service-Portal und Workflow-Automatisierung inklusive AIOps-Anbindung.

Ansible Lightspeed (Red Hat)

KI-Assistenz für Infrastruktur-Automatisierung: erzeugt aus einer Klartextbeschreibung passende Ansible-Playbooks und -Tasks samt Quellenangabe zu genutzten Trainingsinhalten.

Atlassian Intelligence (Jira Service Management)

KI-Funktionen in Jira und Confluence: virtueller Serviceagent im Chat, automatische Ticketzusammenfassungen, Change-Risiko-Einschätzung und Suche über die Wissensbasis.

Cisco AI Assistant

Übergreifender KI-Assistent für Cisco-Umgebungen: erklärt Firewall-Regeln, schlägt Policy-Änderungen vor und fasst Vorfälle aus Netzwerk und Security zusammen.

Datadog Bits AI

KI-Copilot innerhalb von Datadog: fasst laufende Incidents zusammen, schlägt Abfragen vor und erstellt Post-Mortems aus Logs, Metriken und Traces.

Dynatrace Davis AI

AIOps-Engine der Observability-Plattform Dynatrace: erkennt Anomalien in Anwendungen, Netzwerk und Infrastruktur und benennt die konkrete Grundursache statt bloßer Alarme.

Freshservice (Freddy AI)

Cloud-ITSM-Suite mit dem KI-Assistenten Freddy: virtueller Agent im Self-Service-Portal, automatische Ticketklassifikation und generierte Lösungsvorschläge für Agent:innen.

KI-Suite innerhalb von GitLab für den gesamten DevOps-Zyklus: erklärt fehlgeschlagene Pipelines, schlägt Fixes vor, fasst Merge Requests zusammen und hilft bei Root-Cause-Analysen im Deployment.

Continuous-Delivery-Plattform mit KI-Assistenz: bewertet Deployments automatisch anhand von Metriken, erkennt Regressionen und löst bei Bedarf ein Rollback aus.

Juniper Mist AI (Marvis)

KI-gestütztes Netzwerkmanagement für WLAN, LAN und WAN: der virtuelle Netzwerkassistent Marvis beantwortet Fragen in natürlicher Sprache und findet Fehlerquellen selbstständig.

Kubernetes-Troubleshooting-Plattform mit KI: korreliert Deployments, Konfigurationsänderungen und Events und erklärt, welche Änderung eine Störung ausgelöst hat.

Digital-Workspace-Management aus Frankfurt: Service Desk, Asset- und Lizenzmanagement sowie Software-Deployment, ergänzt um KI-gestützte Ticketvorschläge.

KI-Agent für den Employee Self-Service: löst IT- und HR-Anfragen direkt in Slack oder Teams, indem er Passwörter zurücksetzt, Zugriffe erteilt und Wissensinhalte durchsucht.

Network-Automation-Plattform, die Netzwerke automatisch kartografiert, Ist-Zustände dokumentiert und Diagnosen als wiederverwendbare Runbooks ausführt.

Berliner KI-Anbieter für Self-Service und Ticket-Automatisierung: eine zentrale Wissensdatenbank speist Help-Center, Chatbot, Kontaktformular und automatische E-Mail-Antworten.

ServiceNow Now Assist

Generative KI-Schicht der ITSM-Plattform ServiceNow: erzeugt Incident-Zusammenfassungen, Lösungsvorschläge, Wissensartikel und begleitet Change- und Problem-Prozesse.

IT-Service-Management mit durchgängiger KI: der Copilot beantwortet Endnutzeranfragen im Chat, fasst Tickets zusammen und erstellt aus gelösten Fällen automatisch Wissensartikel.

USU IT Service Management

Deutscher ITSM- und Knowledge-Anbieter aus Möglingen: ITIL-konformes Servicemanagement mit KI-Suche, Ticketklassifikation und Self-Service-Bots.

Deutsches Open-Source-Ticketsystem für Helpdesk und Support mit KI-Assistenz („Smart Assist“), die Tickets zusammenfasst, Antwortentwürfe formuliert und Anfragen automatisch einsortiert.

KI-Schicht der Ticket- und Helpdesk-Plattform Zendesk: KI-Agenten beantworten Anfragen eigenständig, erkennen Absicht und Stimmung und liefern Agent:innen fertige Antwortentwürfe.

Level 12: Gaming, Esports & Interactive Entertainment

AI NPCs, procedural content, dynamic dialogue & game testing

No-code studio for creating interactive, voice-driven AI characters for storytelling and games.

Platform for creating AI-driven NPCs with personality, memory and dynamic dialogue for games and virtual worlds.

AI agents and analysts that automatically test games and uncover bugs and balance issues – integration-free automated QA.

AI assistant for procedural 3D world and level creation that assembles scenes from natural-language prompts.

Autonomous end-to-end AI playtesting: AI agents play games like humans and find bugs in real time.

Level 13: Cybersecurity & Threat Intelligence

Anomaly detection, SOC automation, phishing detection & vulnerability analysis

Abnormal Security

AI platform for detecting phishing, business email compromise and social engineering via behavioural analysis rather than signatures.

Self-learning AI that learns 'normal' network behaviour and detects anomalies in real time – Enterprise Immune System.

Agentic AI that independently investigates SOC alerts end-to-end like a human analyst (alert triage automation).

Sublime Security

Email security platform with transparent, customisable ML/rule detections specifically against phishing and BEC.

AI-powered Network Detection & Response (NDR) with attack-signal intelligence to prioritise real threats.

Level 14: Industry 4.0, Robotics & Manufacturing

Predictive maintenance, quality inspection, robotics control & generative design

AI platform for predictive maintenance that analyses machine condition via vibration and acoustic sensors in real time.

Autodesk Fusion Generative Design

AI-driven generative design that optimizes hundreds of design variants for strength, weight, and manufacturability.

AI control software ('foundation model' for robotics) that gives industrial picking robots visual perception and decision-making ability.

AI-powered visual manufacturing analysis that evaluates images along the production line to identify scrap causes.

AI software for industrial computer vision that detects manufacturing defects via deep learning instead of rigid rule sets.

Computational design software with generative/parametric AI optimisation for part design (formerly nTopology).

4Block 4 · Business & Organisation

Level 15: Law & LegalTech

Contract review, legal research, clause analysis & contract management

No-code platform for legal and compliance automation: interactive tools, decision trees, and document automation.

CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters)

AI legal assistant from Thomson Reuters (formerly Casetext), deeply integrated with Westlaw, Practical Law, and publisher databases.

Danish CLM for scale-ups focused on automation: contract drafts, electronic signatures, and centralized repository.

AI-powered contract management for businesses: centralized contract overview, deadline management, signatures, and reminders.

100% European document and contract lifecycle management platform with AI contract review, templates, and eIDAS signatures.

Legal-specialized LLM system, exclusive to top law firms (Allen & Overy, PwC). Research, contract analysis, and drafting in one assistant.

Browser-native, collaborative contract management for sales, HR, and legal teams with AI editor and analytics.

AI-powered contract review from Switzerland: risks, clauses, and deviations against playbooks are automatically flagged.

Cambridge-based legal AI platform with its proprietary LegalPT model for contract analysis, negotiation, and compliance reviews.

GPT-4-powered Word add-in that redlines contracts in real time, suggests clauses, and flags risks.

Level 16: Finance, Controlling & Accounting

Finance copilots, FP&A, invoice automation & procurement

Real-time cash flow and liquidity planning: Agicap connects bank accounts, invoices, and forecasts for stronger financial control.

AI market intelligence platform with access to broker research, filings, expert calls, and news — with semantic search and summaries.

Bloomberg's proprietary 50-billion-parameter LLM, trained on decades of curated financial data and deeply integrated into the Bloomberg Terminal.

Automated invoice intake, approval workflows, and payment reconciliation including ERP integrations for German mid-market companies.

Datarails FP&A Genius

AI copilot for financial planning & analysis (FP&A) that consolidates Excel models and answers ad-hoc questions with numbers in seconds.

AI-powered document and invoice processing for tax firms and accounting teams, GoBD-compliant and EU-hosted.

Kensho (S&P Global)

AI analytics suite from S&P Global: structured data extraction from filings, transcripts, and PDFs, linked to S&P databases.

German spend management platform with corporate cards, invoice processing, and expense management — live with ERP integration.

AI-powered bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for startups and growing US companies — with human accountants in the loop.

Danish smart company spend management: corporate cards, automated receipts, and direct accounting integration.

Ramp Intelligence

AI layer on the Ramp spend management platform: analyzes spend, contracts, and price benchmarks in real time.

Munich-based procurement intelligence platform that links ERP data with market information and provides AI agents for spend analysis, supplier scoring and compliance checks.

Automated e-commerce accounting and tax compliance for European online merchants, including OSS/One-Stop-Shop.

Autonomous AI for accounts payable: recognizes invoices, codes them automatically, and suggests approvals.

Level 17: HR, Recruiting & People

HR suites, active sourcing, matching, feedback & people development

Weltweit verbreitete Employee-Experience-Plattform: Engagement-Umfragen, Performance-Zyklen und KI-Zusammenfassungen tausender Freitextkommentare.

Deutsches Recruiting-Startup, das Kandidat:innen über einen KI-Werte-Check zur Unternehmenskultur matcht statt allein über Lebenslauf-Keywords.

Berliner Talent-Acquisition-Plattform, die Stellenanzeigen algorithmisch auf Kanälen ausspielt und Bewerbungen für gewerbliche und Pflegeberufe vorqualifiziert.

US-Plattform für asynchrone Video-Interviews, strukturierte Assessments und automatisierte Interviewplanung im Volumen-Recruiting.

HR-Software aus Berlin/Madrid mit Fokus auf gewerbliche Belegschaften: Schichtplanung, Zeiterfassung, Onboarding und KI-Textbausteine für HR-Kommunikation.

Berliner People-Enablement-Plattform für Feedback, Ziele, Entwicklung und Engagement-Umfragen, mit KI-Unterstützung beim Formulieren und Auswerten von Feedback.

Personio Intelligence

Führende HR-Suite aus München für den Mittelstand: Personalakte, Recruiting, Abwesenheiten und Lohnvorbereitung, ergänzt um KI-Assistenz für Stellenanzeigen und HR-Auskünfte.

Münchner Behavioral-Intelligence-Plattform: KI-Videotrainings simulieren Verkaufs- und Führungsgespräche und geben sofortiges Verhaltensfeedback.

Berliner Bewerbermanagementsystem (ATS) mit Multiposting, Talentpool und KI-Funktionen für Anzeigentexte sowie Vorauswahl-Unterstützung.

Deutsche Active-Sourcing-Suchmaschine: durchsucht über 100 Netzwerke und schätzt per KI die Wechselwahrscheinlichkeit von Kandidat:innen.

Niederländischer Spezialist für CV-Parsing und Job-Matching: strukturiert Lebensläufe in über 25 Sprachen und liefert die Matching-Engine hinter vielen ATS.

Zavvy (Deel Engage)

Münchner Plattform für Onboarding, Weiterbildung und Karrierepfade; KI erzeugt Rollenprofile, Kompetenzmodelle und Lernpfade aus wenigen Angaben.

Level 18: Sales, Marketing & E-Commerce

Sales copilot, lead scoring, marketing automation & customer communication

AI sales platform with a database of over 275 million contacts, lead scoring, sequencing and auto-dialer.

AI workflow platform for data enrichment and personalised outreach automation with 100+ combinable data sources.

AI-powered cold-email outreach platform with AI sales agent, unlimited mailboxes and deliverability optimisation.

Jasper AI is a leading AI marketing platform designed for teams to create brand-consistent content across multiple channels at scale. It helps organizations streamline copywriting and campaign workflows while strictly adhering to corporate tone and style guides.

AI recommendation engine for B2B sales that prioritises accounts and generates meeting suggestions for sales reps.

Autonomous AI revenue agents for website visitor deanonymisation and engagement via chat, email and ads.

Level 19: Real Estate, Construction & Architecture

BIM AI, energy efficiency, planning optimization & valuation analysis

AI platform for automated building application review, zoning compliance and generative development design.

AI-powered cloud software for early design and site planning including energy, wind and solar analysis.

AI software for automated energy, cost and sustainability analysis of buildings in the design phase.

AI-powered automated valuation model (AVM) and market forecasts for banks, investors and portfolio managers.

Computer vision AI for automated analysis of real estate photos for valuation, condition and renovation needs.

Level 20: Logistics & Supply Chain

Route optimization, demand forecasting, warehouse & risk management

AI suite for end-to-end supply-chain management with cognitive agents for demand, risk and fulfilment.

AI 'Intelligent Control Tower' for autonomous supply-chain operations with over 1.1 million carriers in the network.

AI platform for last-mile route optimisation and warehouse value creation with dynamic tour planning.

AI suite with five modules for demand forecasting, commodity price forecasts, inventory optimisation and working-capital optimisation.

AI-powered supply-chain visibility and orchestration platform with real-time ETA predictions and disruption management.

AI platform for demand forecasting and capacity optimisation in linehaul and network planning.

5Block 5 · Science

Level 21: Scientific Literature & Evidence

Literature search, evidence checking, summarisation & computational knowledge

AI search engine for scientific evidence that answers yes/no questions from many studies and visualises the state of research as a "consensus meter".

AI research assistant that searches more than 125 million papers, extracts key findings and turns them into structured evidence tables.

British AI tool that automatically converts long academic texts into interactive summary flashcards with key findings.

AI citation analysis: scite shows whether later work supports, contrasts or merely mentions a study, making the reliability of sources visible.

Supp.AI (Allen Institute)

Kostenloses Forschungstool des Allen Institute for AI, das mit NLP über 20 Mio. Fachartikel nach Wechselwirkungen zwischen Supplements und Medikamenten durchsucht.

Computational knowledge engine for symbolic calculations, fact queries, and technical formulas from physics, math, and chemistry.

Level 22: Biology, Chemistry & Drug Discovery

Protein structure, molecule generation, retrosynthesis & protein engineering

A DeepMind AI system that predicts the 3D structure of proteins from their amino acid sequence with near-experimental accuracy.

Generative AI for protein engineering from Zurich and Delft: Cradle proposes sequence variants with better stability, activity or expression and keeps learning from your own lab measurements.

Meta's protein oracle: a large biological language model that predicts protein structures far faster than classical methods.

Paris-based specialist for generative molecule design: Makya designs new drug candidates against a target profile, Spaya plans the matching synthesis routes.

Paris-based biotech AI company that uses federated learning to train models across hospital data without the data ever leaving the hospital — the basis for biomarker and oncology research.

AI developed at the University of Washington for protein structure prediction and protein-protein complexes.

Schrödinger Maestro

Professional platform for computer-aided drug design, molecular dynamics, and materials simulation.

SYNTHIA (Merck KGaA)

Retrosynthesis software by Merck of Darmstadt: SYNTHIA breaks a target molecule down into possible synthesis routes, drawing on more than 100,000 chemist-coded reaction rules.

Level 23: Physics, Simulation & Engineering

AI surrogate models, flow simulation & numerical physics

Spin-off of Johannes Kepler University Linz (part of Mistral AI since 2026): its Large Engineering Models replace classical physics solvers and compute flow, heat transfer or structural mechanics in seconds instead of hours.

Autonomous AI agent for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) that drives simulation workflows from natural language.

Swiss EPFL spin-off whose deep-learning platform learns from existing simulation data and then predicts aerodynamics, flow or stress distribution of new designs within seconds.

NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo

Open-source framework for physics-informed neural networks: models learn the underlying differential equations and then deliver fast approximate solutions for flow, weather or heat transfer.

London deep-tech company with Formula 1 roots: its Large Geometry Models predict the physical behaviour of complex parts and are used in aerospace and energy engineering.

Level 24: Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astrophotography AI, star field processing & automatic plate solving

Chilean-led community broker for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and LSST. It processes LSST and Zwicky Transient Facility alert streams in real time and classifies celestial events with machine learning.

Autonomous AI system for anomaly discovery in astronomical survey images. Vision transformers and out-of-distribution detection find unusual celestial objects without human pre-selection.

Astrometry.net (Nova)

Free web service that identifies any star photo automatically: pattern recognition matches the star arrangement against catalogues and returns sky coordinates plus the names of every object in the frame.

NASA open-source tool for AI-assisted validation of exoplanet candidates. Deep learning checks Kepler and TESS light curves to decide whether a dimming event is really a planet.

Citizen-science project for classifying galaxy shapes. Millions of volunteers classify real research images; the Zoobot model combines human answers with Bayesian CNNs.

Free open-source tool from the German-speaking astrophotography community: neural networks remove sky gradients, denoise exposures and sharpen stars without any image-processing expertise.

Deep-learning framework for pixel-level morphological classification of astronomical sources. It detects galaxies, stars and nebulae via semantic segmentation.

RC-Astro XTerminator

The de facto standard in astrophotography: BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator and StarXTerminator sharpen, denoise and separate stars from nebulosity, each with a purpose-trained neural network.

Free neural network that removes stars from astro images — the basis for processing nebulae and galaxies separately from the star field.

6Block 6 · Health & Environment

Level 25: Medicine, Diagnostics & Medical Technology

Radiology and pathology AI, screening support & clinical platforms

Cloud-based AI platform for digital pathology and quantitative analysis of medical images.

Berlin-based Charité spin-off for computational pathology: the Atlas foundation model analyses digitised tissue slides and characterises the tumour and its microenvironment at single-cell resolution.

Vienna-based medical technology company for chest CT reading: ADVANCE Chest CT detects lung patterns, measures nodules and puts similar reference cases next to the current scan.

Munich-based platform deepcOS: a vendor-neutral “operating system” for radiology AI that lets hospitals run dozens of certified algorithms from different vendors in one workflow.

Berlin-based vendor of the md-suite: mdbrain and mdspine evaluate MRI scans automatically, measure brain volumes or spinal structures and deliver a prepared report.

AI-powered digital pathology for cancer diagnostics, biomarker quantification and clinical trials with reproducible image analysis.

AI-powered precision medicine platform for oncology that links multimodal patient data with molecular pathology.

Berlin-based screening AI for mammography, used in more than half of Germany's organised breast cancer screening programme and CE-marked for tomosynthesis (3D) since 2026.

AI-powered care coordination platform for rapid detection of strokes and heart conditions.

Level 26: Health, Nutrition & Wellbeing

Nutrition therapy, tracking AI, supplement evidence & mental health

Berliner Gesundheits-App für Magen-Darm-Beschwerden: erfasst Ernährung und Symptome und erkennt algorithmisch Zusammenhänge, etwa bei Reizdarm oder FODMAP-Diäten.

Clinical voice AI for therapy practices: transcribes sessions, extracts clinically relevant signals, and generates progress notes.

Generative soundscapes instead of fixed playlists: Endel synthesises audio in real time and adapts it to time of day, weather, movement and — with a paired watch — heart rate.

AI nutrition analysis: recognizes meals in photos and computes calories, macro and micronutrients from scientific nutritional databases.

Voice biomarker AI that detects signs of clinical depression or anxiety from a few seconds of speech — a screening add-on for clinicians.

Schwedische Ernährungs-App mit KI-Assistenz für Mahlzeitenerkennung, Ernährungsprofile (Keto, High Protein, Mediterran) und Life-Score-Bewertung.

UK medical device (Class IIa) for AI-assisted triage and self-referral in psychotherapy pathways (NHS Talking Therapies).

Evidenzbasierte Tracking-App mit adaptivem Algorithmus: berechnet den tatsächlichen Energieverbrauch aus Gewichtsverlauf und Logging und passt Makros wöchentlich an.

AI journaling app that turns written entries into mental models, emotion analyses, and personal coach feedback.

Größte Kalorien-Tracking-App der Welt mit über 20 Mio. Lebensmitteleinträgen; KI-Funktionen erkennen Mahlzeiten per Foto und schätzen Portionsgrößen.

Behaviour-based nutrition and weight programme: Noom combines psychology lessons with AI-supported analysis of food logs and photo logging.

Deutsche Coaching-Software für Ernährungsberatung und Personal Training: erstellt automatisiert Ernährungspläne und wertet Klient:innen-Tagebücher aus.

Portugiesische Praxissoftware für Ernährungsfachkräfte: Anamnese, Nährwertberechnung, Planerstellung und Klient:innen-App in einem System.

Digitale Ernährungstherapie mit echten Ernährungsfachkräften plus KI-Assistenz, die Foto-Ernährungstagebücher automatisch auswertet — in Deutschland teils kassenerstattet.

AI companion with a personalized avatar for empathetic everyday conversations, guided exercises, and emotional journaling.

Digital mental health platform combining symptom tracking, AI insights, and communication with clinicians.

AI-assisted journal for mental fitness: Stoic asks tailored reflection questions morning and evening, links them to mood, sleep and activity data, and analyses entries for patterns.

Rule-based AI chatbot built on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), developed by clinical psychologists from Stanford.

AI wellbeing coach using CBT and ACT techniques, complemented by human therapists in the premium tier.

Deutsche Ernährungs- und Kalorien-App mit KI-gestützter Lebensmittelerkennung, Rezeptvorschlägen und Auswertung von Makro- und Mikronährstoffen.

AI assistant for emotional self-reflection with mood tracking, CBT techniques, and optional US telepsychiatry connection.

Britisches Ernährungsprogramm auf Forschungsbasis: kombiniert Blutzucker-, Blutfett- und Mikrobiomtests mit ML-Modellen, die individuelle Lebensmittel-Scores berechnen.

Level 27: Sports, Fitness & Performance

AI coaching, training planning, performance analysis & motion capture

Multi-sport AI coach for over 80 sports with a real adaptive AI core rather than a pure tracker.

Market-leading AI-powered athlete monitoring platform for professional sports with wearable sensors, load management and injury risk analysis.

AI fitness coach that creates individual training plans based on goals, available equipment, limitations and ongoing feedback.

Data-driven, AI-personalised training plans for endurance sports such as running, cycling, swimming and triathlon.

AI training planner with over 3,000 exercises, HD video guides and an integrated tracker, plus a very large user base.

AI endurance coach in chat format for running, cycling and triathlon with wearable integration (Garmin, Whoop, Oura and more).

Level 28: Climate, Environment & Agriculture

Precision agriculture, climate risk, carbon monitoring & vegetation AI

Blue River See & Spray

John Deere's precision-agriculture AI: recognizes weeds in real time and sprays herbicide only on affected plants.

Cervest / Mitiga Solutions

Climate risk platform for physical assets (factories, real estate, grids) with site-based risk scores for regulation (TCFD, EU Taxonomy).

Global AI emissions database: combines satellites, sensors, and ML to make greenhouse gas emissions of individual facilities visible worldwide.

Climate risk analytics for agriculture, food, and supply chains with site-level forecasts across weeks to years.

Open-source NLP models specifically fine-tuned on climate reports, sustainability prospectuses, and TCFD disclosures.

Swiss physical-world foundation model delivering ultra-high-resolution weather and energy forecasts via AI-based physics simulation.

Satellite vegetation intelligence for grid operators: identifies trees threatening power lines to prevent wildfires and outages.

Satellite and ML-based monitoring of forest climate projects for credible, verified carbon credits.

Plant identification from a photo: the vision model matches more than 10,000 species, spots diseases and pests and gives concrete care advice.

Prospera (Valmont)

AI plant vision for irrigation systems: continuously analyzes plant growth and optimizes irrigation and nutrient application.

Independent rating agency for carbon credits: uses satellite data and AI to assess the actual climate impact of projects.

Drone and satellite AI for row-crop farming: sub-mm imagery detects diseases, pests, and yield issues early.

Swiss farm management software with AI-based recommendations for crop rotation, nutrient application, and sustainability reporting.

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Level 29: Society, Politics & Media

Public affairs, deliberation, news aggregation & media monitoring

German-language news aggregator that bundles reports from Spiegel, tagesschau, SZ, FAZ and hundreds of other outlets and condenses them into a daily AI overview.

Digital knowledge twins: thinkers, authors and coaches clone their knowledge as an interactive chat based on their own texts, videos and podcasts.

The world's best-known RSS reader, with a German interface. Its „Leo“ AI filters out noise, prioritises topics and summarises articles automatically.

AI platform for regulatory and legislative intelligence: tracks bills, predicts passage likelihood and analyzes political impact.

AI-powered news aggregation with bias comparison, blindspot detection and fact-checking across hundreds of outlets.

Professional feed reader with a native German interface and price list. Bundles RSS, newsletters, YouTube, Telegram and Google News searches and summarises them with AI.

Ad-free news overview from the Kagi search engine: condenses several sources per topic into one neutral text and lists every reference used.

News Minimalist

AI service that reads more than 30,000 news articles a day, rates each of them for significance and delivers only the genuinely relevant stories as summaries.

AI news app built by former Twitter engineers that bundles multiple sources per event, produces a neutral summary and contrasts how different outlets frame the story.

Open-source deliberation platform with machine learning for large-scale citizen consultations; used by vTaiwan and governments worldwide.

AI public affairs platform for stakeholder mapping, grassroots campaigns and legislative analytics across the US, EU and globally.

Level 30: Culture, Art & Literature

Cultural mediation, generative art, artwork analysis & literary writing

Art Recognition

Swiss company whose deep-learning models assess the authenticity of paintings: the AI compares brushwork, paint application and image structure against securely attributed works by the artist and returns a probability.

Collaborative AI image evolution via latent-space mixing: images are "crossed" and evolved.

AR platform for museums and artists that layers digital content (animations, videos, AI-generated content) onto physical works.

Commercially/legally cleared generative AI with a full licensing chain for art, culture, advertising and publishing production.

Google Arts & Culture

AI-powered culture platform with millions of works from 3,000+ museums, including Art Transfer, Poem Portraits and Art Selfie.

German AI assistant for museums and exhibitions: institutions feed in their own content, visitors ask the agent free-form questions at the exhibit and get answers in their own language.

AI-native writing environment for non-fiction and essay authors: a flowing focus editor with inline AI assistance.

Marlowe (Authors A.I.)

AI manuscript analysis for authors: evaluates pacing, dialogue, beat structure and compares against bestsellers in the same genre.

AI art platform built around a community: NightCafe bundles dozens of image models in one interface and puts daily art challenges, galleries and peer feedback at the centre.

Holistic novel workspace with codex, scene planning and AI draft; bring-your-own-LLM included.

AI-supported digital audio guides delivered as a web app: nuseum turns existing collection texts into multilingual, interactive tours — no app download, no voice recordings.

AI studio for professional visual artists with style mixing, latent-space exploration and series production.

"Shazam for art": AI image recognition that identifies artworks in museums via camera and provides curators' commentary.

AI book recommendations and reading analytics based on mood, pace and themes — as an independent, ad-free alternative to Goodreads.

AI support for publishers and literary agencies: Storywise analyses submitted manuscripts, summarises them, assesses style and audience and helps prioritise the slush pile.

AI assistant specifically for fiction: brainstorming, show-don't-tell rewrites, chapter planning and Story Bible for novelists.

Level 31: Philosophy, Ethics & Education

Moral reasoning, life advice, AI-assisted learning & academic writing

Danish adaptive-learning platform (Rhapsode Engine) that individually adjusts content across four dimensions: knowledge, confidence, time and engagement.

Research prototype by the Allen Institute for AI that issues moral judgments on everyday situations using a trained language model, making the limits of machine ethics visible.

German-language AI tutor that lets teachers create adaptive, gamified exercise worlds based on their own teaching materials.

Debate arena where several language models (GPT-5, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini and more) argue the same question from opposing sides — including modes where you take them on yourself.

German platform with AI chat, prompt lab and customisable AI assistants specifically for teachers – GDPR-compliant for school use.

Dialectic reasoning tool that breaks a thesis down across five phases, forces you to defend it against objections and rebuilds it into a resilient synthesis.

European AI platform that searches over 200 million papers and provides a block editor for publication-ready manuscripts with automatic citation.

Swedish AI-native learning and knowledge platform (LMS/LXP hybrid) that auto-generates training content and provides personalised AI tutors.

summetix (Argument Search)

Argument mining rooted at TU Darmstadt: neural networks search large document collections and summarise the pros and cons of a question in real time.

AI grammar and style checker specialising in academic and technical English, by Enago, with a focus on STEM and medical terminology.

AI language feedback tool specifically for academic writing, developed by a linguistics/AI research team, with plugins for Word, Overleaf and Zotero.

Level 32: Personal Life, Everyday & Leisure

Personal AI companions, entertainment, music discovery & everyday helpers

A rethought web browser with a sidebar, Spaces and the optional 'Arc Max' AI pack: link previews, tidied tab titles and ChatGPT answers straight from the command bar.

Platform for role-play chats with self-built or community-made AI characters — from historical figures and language partners to purely fictional personas.

Inflection AI's personal companion, deliberately tuned for conversation rather than productivity: Pi listens, asks follow-up questions and remembers earlier topics.

An AI host inside Spotify Premium: the DJ assembles a continuous selection from your listening history and introduces it with a synthetic voice.