{"id":690276,"date":"2025-09-16T06:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-we-need-european-ai-employees\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:50:31","slug":"why-we-need-european-ai-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-we-need-european-ai-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need European AI employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2fb411017d9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2fb411017d9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-we-need-european-ai-employees\/#State_of_AI\" >State of AI<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-we-need-european-ai-employees\/#State_of_Europe\" >State of Europe<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-we-need-european-ai-employees\/#The_upcoming_rise_of_AI_employees\" >The upcoming rise of AI employees<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-we-need-european-ai-employees\/#A_first_battlefield_for_AI_employees_Sales_automation\" >A first battlefield for AI employees: Sales automation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-we-need-european-ai-employees\/#Europes_choice\" >Europe\u2019s choice<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2025%2F09%2FUntitled-design-4.jpg&amp;signature=8ddac081b4d4f9bd22edf14a52ef0646\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p><em>Founders\u2019 takes\u00a0is a new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> featuring expert insights from tech leaders transforming industries with artificial intelligence. In this edition, Lucas Spreiter, founder of German startup <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bouncewatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Venta AI<\/a>, shares his vision of AI employees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Artificial intelligence is about to enable the most dramatic shift of the century: the transition from human labour to AI labour. In the coming years, businesses won\u2019t just use AI as a tool \u2014 they\u2019ll employ AI as real colleagues, handling critical workflows end-to-end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That shift is inevitable. The real question is: whose employees will we be hiring? If Europe doesn\u2019t catch up with the US and China and build its own AI employees, we could end up outsourcing a major chunk of our economic value creation \u2014 or as we Germans call it. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wertsch\u00f6pfung:<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the very core of how we produce wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"State_of_AI\"><\/span>State of AI<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The breakthrough came with OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT in 2022. It proved that knowledge work could be automated at scale: research, writing, coding, analysis \u2014 all suddenly possible by software instead of people. The emergence of AI agents takes these capabilities even further. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper channel-cta\">\n<div class=\"ica-text\">\n<p class=\"ica-text__title\">TNW City Coworking space &#8211; Where your best work h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens<\/p>\n<p>A workspace designed for growth, collaboration, and endless networking opportunities in the heart of tech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With agents, AI models can not only respond to textual input, but also take over entire tasks. AI today is able to plan, reason, and execute workflows across multiple tools and channels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OpenAI still dominates this field, tightly integrated with Microsoft \u2014 but the competition has become fierce. Google has caught up with its Gemini models, Meta with LLaMA and Anthropic with Claude. Still, there is a pattern: the leaders of today\u2019s AI revolution are almost exclusively American tech giants, who not only develop and control the models, but also the infrastructure and workflows that power businesses worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their biggest challenger comes from the East. China has shown with DeepSeek that it\u2019s possible to catch up \u2014 and fast. The system outperformed many Western models on benchmarks while running with radically lower computing costs. Beijing\u2019s heavy state backing ensures that China won\u2019t stay a follower for long.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"State_of_Europe\"><\/span>State of Europe<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long before ChatGPT became a household name, European researchers laid the groundwork for modern AI. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the late 1980s, Yann LeCun (Universit\u00e9 Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris) pioneered Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), forming the basis of computer vision and multimodal AI. In 1997, Sepp Hochreiter and J\u00fcrgen Schmidhuber (TU Munich) invented Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, crucial for speech recognition, translation, and NLP. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, London-based DeepMind stunned the world when AlphaGo defeated world champion Lee Sedol, while LMU Munich\u2019s CompVis group, led by Professor Bj\u00f6rn Ommer, advanced generative AI, culminating in Stable Diffusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The paradox is clear: Europe invents, others commercialise. LeCun moved to Meta, DeepMind was acquired by Google, and Stable Diffusion was monetised via Stability AI in London and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new generation of European AI companies is trying to change that. France\u2019s Mistral is staking Europe\u2019s claim to sovereign AI,\u00a0 building open-source LLMs and enterprise tools like Le Chat that have attracted customers such as AXA and BNP Paribas. Black Forest Labs, spun out of the same LMU team behind Stable Diffusion, builds one of the most powerful image generators \u2014 and aims to keep cutting-edge research and commercialisation in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other startups, like Germany\u2019s Langdock, have taken a different path. Instead of building foundation models themselves, they enable companies to use existing LLMs while keeping the data and workflows in-house.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_upcoming_rise_of_AI_employees\"><\/span>The upcoming rise of AI employees<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are only scratching the surface of what AI can do. Today\u2019s models \u2014 powerful as they may be \u2014 are still early-stage. The real value won\u2019t come from the models themselves, but from how we apply them: automating workflows, streamlining operations, and effectively creating AI employees that can handle complex tasks across businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Europe, this is a golden opportunity. Our industries are highly efficient, with clearly defined, rule-based workflows \u2014 exactly the kind of environment where AI thrives. Manufacturing, logistics, finance, insurance, and even customer support have massive potential to be augmented or replaced by AI systems that can follow documented procedures, make decisions, and execute entire processes autonomously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The monetisation upside is enormous. Every workflow that can be automated is a chance to reduce costs, improve speed, and scale operations. And unlike consumer-facing AI hype, this value is tangible: it sits directly in enterprise productivity and efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the clock is ticking. If Europe doesn\u2019t act now to train, deploy, and integrate AI employees locally, we risk becoming passive consumers. AI labour will be imported from the US, along with the associated value creation. Instead of leading the next industrial revolution, we\u2019ll be paying foreign providers to run our businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe\u2019s challenge \u2014 and its opportunity \u2014 is clear: turn its existing industrial advantage into a homegrown AI workforce. The companies that succeed in creating, training, and scaling AI employees here will define the next wave of economic leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_first_battlefield_for_AI_employees_Sales_automation\"><\/span>A first battlefield for AI employees: Sales automation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there\u2019s one field where AI employees are already proving their worth, it\u2019s sales automation. Sales workflows are often highly manual, repetitive, and rule-based \u2014 from building lead lists and monitoring markets to drafting outreach emails and even making cold calls. This makes them a natural playground for AI that can follow clear processes and execute tasks at scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The startup 11x.ai demonstrated the potential \u2014 and the risks. Originally from the UK, the team relocated to the US after a $50mn financing round and claimed to have created \u201cdigital workers\u201d with \u201chuman results\u201d that can automate sales workflows from prospecting to closing deals. They grew rapidly, but their claims drew scrutiny: a <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/24\/a16z-and-benchmark-backed-11x-has-been-claiming-customers-it-doesnt-have\/?utm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TechCrunch investigation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> highlighted that they struggled with customer retention, leading to the CEO stepping down. Still, their rise illustrates the massive value and speed at which AI can transform sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But a system like 11x.ai would have a hard time in Europe. Sales here emphasise quality over quantity, strict compliance rules restrict unsolicited email outreach, and GDPR governs every touchpoint of data handling. A US-centric AI employee simply cannot be dropped into European workflows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why my startup, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getventa.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Venta AI<\/a>, takes a localised approach. Instead of chasing a global market, our team in Germany is designing AI sales employees tailored to European specifics, respecting cultural norms, legal boundaries, and data protection standards. As our founder, Lucas Spreiter, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/unternehmen\/start-ups\/start-up-mehr-umsatz-weniger-aufwand-venta-ai-automatisiert-vertrieb\/100135889.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told <i>Handelsblatt<\/i><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t hire an American for a German sales role \u2014 and the same applies to AI.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Europes_choice\"><\/span>Europe\u2019s choice<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe has the talent, research, and industrial efficiency to lead the next wave of AI labour \u2014 but only if it acts now. The rise of AI employees is inevitable, and the real value lies in how these models are applied, not just their raw capabilities. By building AI systems that respect European workflows, culture, and compliance, startups like Mistral, Black Forest Labs, Langdock, and Venta AI are turning potential vulnerability into opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The message is clear: Europe can either import AI labour from the US and fall behind, or create its own AI employees and capture the economic and strategic value of this transformation. The choice will define the continent\u2019s role in the AI-powered economy of tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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