At the IONOS Summit 2025 in Berlin, Karlsruhe-based AI innovator embraceableAI was honored with the prestigious award for Best AI Project of the Year. The jury recognized e1, a cognitive reasoning system that pursues a distinct alternative to conventional AI development: Instead of merely relying on ever-expanding model sizes, e1 focuses on a controllable, traceable, and auditable system architecture for machine reasoning
Are Hyperscalers truly the only answer? AI in the banking sector demands uncompromising standards regarding data sovereignty, compliance, and regulatory adherence. After all, we are dealing with highly sensitive business operations. Standardized public clouds often fail to map these specific requirements with the necessary precision—introducing significant operational risks. That is why Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe (HAL), in collaboration with AI specialist embraceableAI, has chosen a different path: relying on a locally operated, modular AI platform, demonstrating that….
“e1 consists of two modules: a Large Language Model (LLM) for hypotheses and an engine for structure and validation. The engine analyzes the LLM’s proposals, classifies them, discards contradictions, and derives conclusions…”
“The engine acts as a central control unit, analyzing, evaluating, and connecting the LLM’s content based on causal and logical derivations. Every step in the thought process is explicitly documented, which ensures traceability even after the fact…”
“Europe must start to act. It is not enough to simply follow developments—the AI transformation must be actively driven from the user’s side…”
“Katrin Schütz, former State Secretary for Economic Affairs in Baden-Württemberg and now on the board of the AI startup Embraceable AI, sees ‘many smaller trains still waiting at the station.’ ‘China and the USA…”
“Together with the startup EmbraceableAI, the chamber used AI to examine 6,300 business-relevant rules and administrative procedures in the state of Baden-Württemberg…”
