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April 25, 2025

Can this small European startup solve AGI?

Swedish Sics wants to put European AGI on the map


Mimi Billing

5 min read

At a panel earlier this month hosted by the European Commission, Mistral's Audrey Herblin-Stoop, Peter Sarlin from Silo AI and a relatively unknown tech entrepreneur — Karim Nouira, the cofounder of Sics — sat down to discuss the future of European tech.

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Sics's core founders Per-Eric Olsson and Karim Nouira.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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