{"id":57753,"date":"2026-07-20T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/57753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:38:22","slug":"the-greatest-untapped-opportunity-in-enterprise-ai-sap-cto-philipp-herzig-on-prior-labs-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/57753\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Greatest Untapped Opportunity in Enterprise AI&#8221; : SAP CTO Philipp Herzig on Prior Labs Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"widgetopts583349488 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">SAP has completed its acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Prior Labs and committed to investing more than \u20ac1 billion over the next four years to establish a globally leading frontier AI research lab focused on structured business data and Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts1050010275 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">SAP has completed its acquisition of Prior Labs, a specialist in Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs), as it strengthens its enterprise AI strategy and expands its research capabilities in structured business data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts1526516292 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">Prior Labs will continue to operate as an independent entity, with SAP investing more than \u20ac1 billion over the next four years to develop it into a globally leading frontier AI lab. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts1486760439 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">The acquisition builds on SAP\u2019s existing work in TFMs following the development of SAP-RPT-1. Unlike large language models (LLMs), which are designed primarily for language tasks, TFMs are purpose-built to analyse structured business data such as tables, numbers and statistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts957729247 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">According to SAP, the technology is designed to improve predictions across business processes, including payment delays, supplier risks, customer churn risk and upsell opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts255399259 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">\u201cEarly on, SAP recognized that the greatest untapped opportunity in enterprise AI wasn\u2019t large language models; it was AI built for the structured data that runs the world\u2019s businesses,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/philipp-herzig\/?locale=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philipp Herzig, Chief Technology Officer, SAP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts2013875808 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">\u201cWe built SAP-RPT-1 to prove that conviction for enterprise data. Prior Labs has built a leading TFM on public benchmarks and built one of the leading research teams in this category. Combining their frontier model work with enterprise data and customer reach is how we intend to lead this category globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts1102080510 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">With the acquisition completed, Prior Labs will operate as an independent AI research unit while benefiting from SAP\u2019s long-term investment and product development capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts652541863 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">The research developed by Prior Labs will be integrated into SAP\u2019s portfolio through SAP AI Core, SAP Business Data Cloud and the Joule agentic AI layer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts697507446 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">\u201cOver the last 18 months, Prior Labs has built an incredible team, increasing the velocity in tabular foundation models,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/frank-hutter-9190b24b\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Hutter, Chief Executive Officer, Prior Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts1969865229 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">\u201cJoining the SAP family gives us the resources, data environment and customer reach to take this category to its full potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Open-source strategy and research team remain in place<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts1526383673 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">Prior Labs\u2019 open-source TabPFN technology has been downloaded more than 3 million times and supports a broad developer community. SAP said it will continue supporting the company\u2019s open-source strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts2023067611 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">The Prior Labs co-founders Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann and Sauraj Gambhir will continue to lead the research team. SAP also confirmed that Yann LeCun and Bernhard Schoelkopf will serve on Prior Labs\u2019 scientific advisory board as the lab expands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts731148912 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">Prior Labs\u2019 latest TabPFN-2.6 model currently tops the TabArena benchmark for Tabular Foundation Models and is designed to deliver predictive accuracy comparable to a four-hour automated machine learning (ML) pipeline in a single model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts1074193596 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">SAP said the technology will allow business users to interact with structured data using natural language, generate or select datasets, and run \u201cwhat-if\u201d scenarios without requiring specialist data science or machine learning expertise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts330818466 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">The company also said its use of in-context learning will enable users to receive predictions without training new models, allowing a single TFM to adapt to multiple business use cases while supporting faster time to value with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts384625765 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\">The acquisition strengthens SAP\u2019s ability to deliver predictive AI systems that understand structured business data natively while combining tables, language and images to support agentic AI applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"widgetopts764523297 extendedwopts-col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 wp-block-paragraph\" data-animation-event=\"enters\"> It plans to turn Prior Labs\u2019 research into enterprise-ready innovation, helping organisations extract greater value from business data by improving predictive capabilities and supporting more advanced reasoning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAP has completed its acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Prior Labs and committed to investing more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21036],"tags":[23213,9695],"class_list":["post-57753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sap","tag-insights","tag-sap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}