# European AI startups

> European AI companies shipping at global scale: Mistral, Lovable, DeepL, Black Forest Labs, Helsing, ElevenLabs and more. AI is not a two-country race.

European AI startups | Euronomy

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The US and China lead the AI headlines. Europe leads in places nobody is looking. Open-weight LLMs from Paris. Frontier image models from Freiburg. Prompt-to-app unicorns from Stockholm. Defence AI from Munich. Quantum computers from Espoo. Drug discovery from San Sebastián. The reference translation engine from Cologne.

Below: European AI companies already shipping at global scale. Most are under five years old. None of them needed Silicon Valley to do it.