SAP's Sean Kask: software firms must become AI companies or perish

SAP chief AI strategy officer Sean Kask said at a Turin conference that software companies must rebuild their products around AI rather than adding it as a feature. SAP acquired German tabular-model startup Prior Labs and committed over €1bn over four years to grow it into a frontier AI lab.

• SAP commits over €1bn over four years to Prior Labs
• Prior Labs' model leads the TabArena benchmark
• 80% of business data is unstructured, but the 20% in tables drives 80% of value
• SAP uses 100+ models and does not build its own LLM