Helsinki-based EdTech start-up Bravori is building a gamified practice companion app for young music students. Faced with an ambitious technical question, could software automatically evaluate a student’s piano playing and deliver structured feedback? The team turned to FAIR to find out. The answer, it turned out, was a qualified yes.
urope’s largest dedicated quantum investment fund, betting that industrial design is overdue the same disruption AI delivered to software development.
Nokia has launched a dedicated AI networking laboratory in Silicon Valley, betting that surging demand for AI infrastructure will cement the Finnish telecoms firm’s remarkable comeback — its shares have surged over the past year as investors pile into legacy technology stocks riding the AI infrastructure boom.
The European Union’s AI Continent Action Plan rests on five pillars designed to make Europe a global AI power. From 2026, we at Finnish AI Region take on a new gateway role at the centre of the architecture, backed by a first term in which we supported hundreds of Finnish organisations on their AI journey.
Companies using FAIR, Finland’s EU-funded artificial intelligence support hub, grew their collective revenue by 76% and headcount by 30% between 2020 and 2025, outpacing both the national economy and the ICT sector. A new survey finds the strongest gains in digital capability and AI adoption, with demand for deeper support growing across the customer base.
Let’s state the fact. Finland is using AI. It just isn’t profiting from it yet. Across the Nordic region, 79% of organisations report efficiency gains from AI — but only 18% report revenue growth. That gap is not a technology problem. It is an organisational one.
Finnish companies are adopting AI at a faster pace than ever. But adoption and impact are not the same thing. Drawing on four primary data sources — including FAIR’s own consultancy findings — this article examines why the gap between AI activity and measurable business value persists, and what it will actually take to close it.
Finnish water treatment company Kemira and British AI startup CuspAI say they have designed new materials capable of removing some of the most persistent pollutants in global water supplies — though the candidates must still prove themselves under real-world conditions.
A global survey of more than 200 CFOs and senior finance leaders reveals a stark gap between expectations for artificial intelligence and its actual deployment, as most organisations remain trapped in small-scale pilots that never reach enterprise-wide adoption.
Enviable set out to demonstrate that the underutilised real-time data generated by commercial buildings can be analysed with artificial intelligence and transformed into concrete actions that improve performance, reduce costs, and ultimately enable partially autonomous building management. With the support of FAIR, the company was able to validate its idea at an early stage and lay the foundation for a commercial product.
