AI

The Czech Republic is one of the best European destinations for investments, where talent, education, and innovativeness create suitable conditions for technology growth. These factors have enabled many companies to expand while attracting high-value projects from leading global tech firms. It's not surprising that the Czech Republic still hosts a strong local competitor to Google—Seznam.cz—which for more than three decades has produced localized products challenging Google. No other country using the Latin alphabet has such a local champion.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging, and the Czech Republic is a significant AI hotspot. Many corporates have AI research teams here (IBM, O2, T-Mobile, RedHat) and collaborate with top researchers at local universities such as Czech Technical University in Prague, Charles University in Prague, Brno University of Technology, and Masaryk University in Brno. Czech companies like Resistant.ai and Rossum.ai have attracted major investments and may soon be joined by others. CzechInvest supports AI through its AI Hub, part of the Technology Incubation (TI) project. AI is the main field within TI, with 268 applications received across six calls. As of December 2025, 60 AI projects are incubated in the AI Hub, accounting for 30% of all startups across TI's seven sectors.

New trends and technical advancements are supported by programmes, national strategies, research centres, and universities. Leading regional institutions (prg.ai, brno.AI, Moravian-Silesian Innovation Center, BIC Pilsen) and state-level bodies (ICT Union, Confederation of Industry, CzechInvest) collaborate through the Czech National AI Platform (CNAIP) launched in June 2024. Academics are coordinated via AI Czechia, aiming to make the Czech Republic a global AI innovation hub.

Prague and Brno are the main AI hotspots, home to over 80% of AI companies and researchers. AI Days connect local AI communities, with the first edition in Brno in 2022 deemed a success. In 2024, AI Days covered almost all regions with over 10,000 participants. AI Days 2025 took place in November, spanning 36 cities with over 250 AI events including AI4Business, AI4Talent, and Startup Pitch Contests.

At CzechInvest, we see vast untapped AI potential. The Czech Republic has world-class researchers, especially in NLP, machine vision, and machine perception. Many new startups have emerged from our incubation program (Filuta AI, RoboTwin, Mama AI, and others). The future looks bright.