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The Czech AI Talent War: Inside the Salaries, Poaching and Skills Gap Behind the Adoption Numbers
Salaries, poaching and the skills gap behind Czech AI adoption — who's hiring, and why demand outstrips supply.
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Czech AI news and analysis: how far enterprise adoption has actually travelled, what the government's National AI Strategy has bought for CZK 19bn, and where AI is reshaping industrial supply chains. We track the data rather than the announcements, and update figures as the CNB, EIB and CEE AI Index publish new numbers.
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20 Czech AI Companies and Startups You Should Know
Twenty Czech AI companies and startups to know, covering document AI, fraud detection, industrial machine learning, healthcare, language technology and enterprise automation.
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Czech Hospitals Are Already Using AI. Governance Is the Next Problem
Czech hospitals are moving AI into radiology, diagnostics and administration. The next challenge is governance, validation and procurement.
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The Quiet 12 Percent: How ČEZ Is Using AI to Keep the Grid Running, Not Just to Power It
ČEZ cut unplanned outages roughly 12% with predictive maintenance AI. Inside the utility's smart-grid build-out — and how it differs from the data-centre story.
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Two Messages, One Answer: How a Prague Startup Is Testing AI on the Smallest Units of Czech Government
Citymind's AI chatbots serve Prague 6 and a South Moravian village. Citizen ratings beat the national e-government benchmark — with a vendor-data caveat.
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Who's Paying for the Compute? Czech Data Centres and the Quiet Race to Power Them
Czech data-centre and AI infrastructure growth, including electricity demand, grid constraints, major projects and what physical capacity means for Czechia's AI economy.
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Czech Banks' Quiet AI Build-Out: Fraud Detection, Faster Onboarding and a Widening Gap With Fintech
Fraud detection, faster onboarding, real returns: inside AI in production at ČSOB, Česká spořitelna and KB.
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NAIS and Beyond: Grading the Czech Government's AI Strategy Against Its CZK 19bn Price Tag
NAIS 2030 promised pilots, funding and EU AI Act readiness. Here's what's delivered so far — and what hasn't.
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Czech Retail's AI Pivot: Inside the Warehouses and Routing Algorithms Powering Rohlik and Its Rivals
Demand forecasting, dynamic pricing and same-day delivery: AI's most commercially proven Czech use case.
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The Automotive Squeeze: How AI and the EV Transition Are Reshaping Czechia's Škoda-Anchored Supply Chain
Škoda's battery push and AI-driven logistics are forcing Czech automotive suppliers through a double transition.
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Who's Actually Deploying AI? A Reality Check on Czech and CEE Enterprise Adoption
Czech firms lead the EU on AI use — but adoption drops sharply outside large enterprises. Here's the data.
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Rossum: The Prague AI Founders Who Turned Document Work into a Global Software Business
How Rossum founders Tomas Gogar, Petr Baudis and Tomas Tunys built a Prague AI company for document processing and reached an acquisition by Coupa.
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UiPath: How Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă Built Romania’s Defining Enterprise Software Success Story
How UiPath founders Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca built the Romanian automation company from Bucharest into a global public enterprise software business.