The Greek AI Ecosystem - The Greek Analyst
Once cryptic acronyms like LLMs (Large Language Models), GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer), RL (Reinforcement Learning) and NLP (Natural Language Processing) have become common business and household names. As you are reading this, there’s a good chance you’re already familiar with most (if not all) of them already.
“So what does Greece have to do with all of this”, you might ask? Great question. The short answer is “more than you think.” The long one? Keep reading!
Despite Greece’s small size, Greek academics, scientists, developers, technologists, founders and startup operators play an outsized role in influencing the current AI wave. Some do it from within Greece, while many are making great strides abroad. Greeks all over the world are making fantastic contributions to the domain, either by leading new research or developing new tangible use cases.
Greek universities have traditionally been very strong in technical fields, including the field of AI/ML since its very infancy. Through the years, they have built a very strong pool of tech savvy engineers and researchers that have either flocked in specific domestic hubs (Athens first, then Patra, Crete and Thessaloniki) or spread their wings abroad. Many of them have been working on AI projects for years.
