July 14, 2026 – Finnish AI Region

GitHits raises €1.5 million to build an AI-native search engine for open-source code

by Martti Asikainen
July 14, 2026July 14, 2026

The pre-seed round backs a four-person founding team betting that AI coding agents need a dedicated index of open-source code, rather than general-purpose search — positioning the company against Codex, Claude Code and Cursor as a complement, and against well-funded rival Exa as a narrower, code-only alternative.

Major General Viktor Kalnitski, Deputy Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, Peter Sarlin, the CEO of the NestAI, and Major General Sami Nurmi, Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategy at the Defence Command Finland. Photo by Finnish Defence Forces.

NestAI to train sovereign AI models for European defence, as Finland and Estonia pilot first systems

by Martti Asikainen
July 14, 2026July 14, 2026

Finnish defence AI company NestAI has begun training frontier AI models specifically for battlefield use, with the Finnish and Estonian defence forces set to pilot the first versions under a cooperation agreement signed in June — the clearest sign yet of Europe’s push to build its own military AI rather than rely on models developed elsewhere.