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title: "German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence was founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership. It has research facilities in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Oldenburg, and Osnabrück, as well as laboratories in Berlin, Darmstadt, and Lübeck, and a branch office in Trier."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-german-research-center-for-artificial-intelligence
type: Organization
wikidata: Q896469
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Research_Centre_for_Artificial_Intelligence
website: https://www.dfki.de/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

> The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence was founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership. It has research facilities in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Oldenburg, and Osnabrück, as well as laboratories in Berlin, Darmstadt, and Lübeck, and a branch office in Trier.

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## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Country: Germany
- Founded: 1988-01-01
- Headquarters: Kaiserslautern
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.dfki.de/
- Also known as: DFKI, GRCAI
- Industries: artificial intelligence, research

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/DFKI
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dfki
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvY5Q4sIRXThuJf6uqRE7-Q
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DFKI.GmbH
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dfki_official

## Key people

- Antonio Krüger, chief executive (German computer scientist)
- Antonio Krüger, director (German computer scientist)
- Elisabeth André (German computer scientist from Saarlouis)
- Daniel Braun (German writer)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-german-research-center-for-artificial-intelligence#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q896469, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Research_Centre_for_Artificial_Intelligence

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