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In Germany, around EUR 1.2 billion has been invested in start-ups on the AI map between 2009 and today. However, if you take a look at China, this sum seems like a drop in the ocean. There, the AI start-up SenseTime (active in the fields of facial recognition and deep learning) has received more than EUR 2.2 billion since 2017 - from leading Chinese venture capital investors and large corporations such as Alibaba and Qualcomm, among others. Enormous differences in size between the Chinese and German, but also American or British start-up landscape therefore remain. They can also be seen from ...