German entries cluster in professional and corporate work — ChatGPT Enterprise for 900 advisers at HSP Gruppe, Copilot for 1,900 staff at Sportfive — under a federal AI strategy running since 2018.
Announced 2018, federal investment raised from €3bn to €5bn to 2025. Its pillars are research, competence centres, transfer to industry, skills.
Services 64.5% · Industry 25.2% · Agriculture 0.9% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025
Lower Saxony and Thuringia have both opened telli, the states' shared AI chatbot, to their schools.
Germany3 Apr 2026State of Thuringia (Ministry of Education) — Thuringia has made telli, an AI chatbot for teachers, available to state and independent schools through its school portal; pupils get no direct access. Education minister Christian Tischner called it a historic step.
Germany16 Feb 2026State of Lower Saxony (public schools), via FWU — Lower Saxony has made telli, an AI chatbot for schools commissioned by all 16 German states, free for every public school, says FWU, the states' media institute. Teachers and pupils get data-protection-compliant generative AI, with the language models hosted only on EU servers.
Rüsselsheim said it will introduce AI minute-taking, semantic search and email triage for municipal staff, funded with €309,000.
Germany27 Jul 2026North Rhine-Westphalia tax administration (Finanzverwaltung NRW) — North Rhine-Westphalia's tax administration is live-testing FinAssist.NRW, an in-house AI assistant hosted in its own data centre. Tax offices in Gütersloh, Oberhausen-Nord and Solingen have trialled the chatbot live since June 2026, before the state finance ministry's own trial; it condenses and analyses internal papers, writes drafts, organises email chains and pulls out task lists.
Germany22 Jul 2026Stadt Rüsselsheim am Main — Rüsselsheim am Main will introduce AI minute-taking from notes or audio, a semantic search and dialogue tool spanning archives, meeting papers and project documents, and an email assistant that sorts and ranks messages, part-drafts replies and condenses long threads. Hesse's state secretary for digital affairs handed the mayor 309,000 euros for the project under the Starke Heimat Hessen programme. The three tools will run on a German-based sovereign public-administration platform and later be reusable by other municipalities.
Sportfive has rolled Microsoft Copilot out to 1,900 staff and reports 93% adoption — the company's own figure.
Germany27 Aug 2026Sportfive — Sportfive has put generative AI in sports marketing work, giving Microsoft 365 Copilot to all 1,900 staff in 20 countries with 93% adoption and 88% satisfaction reported. Employees use it for translation, document creation, outreach drafting and sponsor research, after everyone passed 'AI driving licence' training aligned with the EU AI Act.
Deutsche Bank has deployed Google's AI research agent across its Corporate Bank.
Germany25 Aug 2026Deutsche Bank — Germany's Deutsche Bank, a design partner for the Financial Research agent in Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, is rolling the AI research agent out across its Corporate Bank. The tool runs research end to end with source citations and audit trails, drawing on 50-plus specialised financial skills.
HSP Gruppe has put ChatGPT Enterprise in the hands of 900 advisers.
Germany30 Aug 2026HSP Gruppe — German advisory firm HSP Gruppe has brought generative AI for advisers to around 900 staff via ChatGPT Enterprise, for research, advisory work, knowledge management and client communications. It claims over 40,000 hours freed a year, some 28,000 billable and worth about €3.8 million in potential revenue, with 98.6% of surveyed users more productive; no independent evaluation exists.
Broadcast Solutions ran the Supercup on automated AI cameras.
Germany1 Sep 2026Broadcast Solutions — Broadcast Solutions produced the inaugural Franz Beckenbauer Supercup's tactical feed with automated camera production systems from Studio Automated, plus Egripment equipment. The company says the systems delivered the tactical coverage but gave no detail on the automation behind it.
Zalando's Nomagic picking robots are working in Lahr and Mönchengladbach.
Germany19 Mar 2026Zalando — Zalando is deploying up to 50 AI picking robots from Nomagic across its European fulfilment network, with first units already running in Lahr and Mönchengladbach, Germany, and Verona, Italy. Nicknamed 'Richard', they pick and scan individual items, shoeboxes included, and feed automated pocket sorters, and Zalando, announcing from Berlin, plans more for Rotterdam, Stockholm, Paris and its new Giessen site.
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Ukraine—Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.
The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 1114 entries across 249 countries.
