Making artificial intelligence accessible for business, public administration, and society.
The AI Service Centre Berlin-Brandenburg (KI-Servicezentrum Berlin-Brandenburg) is a project at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam and one of four AI service centres funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). We help companies, public administration, and startups put AI into practice through advisory services, hands-on training, and access to our AI compute infrastructure. All of our offerings are free of charge.
This organization hosts the open source side of that work: workshop materials, prototypes from pilot projects with our partners, demos, and reusable tools.
| Prefix | What it is | Examples |
|---|---|---|
workshop- |
Hands-on materials from our workshop series | getting-started, rag, time-series |
pilotproject- |
Prototypes built together with partner organizations | sentra, leichte-sprache |
demo- |
Self-contained demos of AI capabilities | sketch2image |
tool- |
Reusable tools and services | litellm, interactive-slurm |
- Attending one of our workshops? workshop-getting-started walks you through the setup you'll need.
- Just browsing? Our most popular materials cover retrieval-augmented generation and agentic RAG, reinforcement learning, and time series forecasting.
- Curious what we build with partners? Explore the results of our research and pilot projects in the virtual showroom.
- Want to join live? Upcoming workshops and guest talks are on Eventbrite.
All offerings are free of charge and aimed at SMEs, public administration, and startups:
- AI office hours (KI-Sprechstunde): online group advisory sessions on use cases, model and framework selection, implementation, and efficient use of our infrastructure.
- Pilot projects: we develop a working AI prototype together with your organization, with active support from our AI engineers. Application rounds open every three months and are announced in our newsletter.
- Infrastructure: heterogeneous AI compute in Potsdam, from NVIDIA H100 training pods to a neuromorphic SpiNNaker cluster, available for training and evaluating your models.
Find out more on our website in English or German.
- Newsletter for events and application rounds
- Guest talk recordings on tele-TASK
- Self-paced online courses on openHPI and KI-Campus
- Email us at KISZ@hpi.de
The AI Service Centre Berlin-Brandenburg is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) under the funding code 16IS22092.
