Bertelsmann Stiftung: New white paper: Public AI as a democratic alternative to the concentration of private power20.5.2025 12:00:00 CEST | news aktuell GmbH | Press release
Gütersloh, May 20, 2025 The most powerful AI systems of our time were developed and are controlled by a small number of private companies – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and DeepSeek. These companies don’t just dominate the development of models, they control the basic infrastructure of the AI ecosystem: computing capacities, training data, and cloud services. This concentration of power is not just a technological reality – it is a political challenge. It raises a central question: Who designs the systems that are increasingly influencing our society?