How US heavyweights can help grow the Swiss AI sector

The arrival of artificial intelligence companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, in Zurich has raised hopes that Switzerland has the research and talent firepower to forge a prominent role in the much-hyped AI industry. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Whether Switzerland can successfully grow an AI hub hinges on the country’s continued ability to produce and attract the best talent and finance promising start-ups. It also depends on the way it chooses to regulate AI in future, according to experts. Switzerland is better known for its banks, watches and pharmaceutical industry than information technology. But OpenAI and Anthropic, the creators of rival AI assistants ChatGPT and Claude, have now joined the likes of Nvidia, Apple and Google in basing AI research offices in the Alpine state. + ChatGPT: intelligent, stupid or downright dangerous? Open AI’s vice president of research, Mark Chen, hailed Switzerland as a “leading European technology centre”. Zurich is a ...