Jonas Andrulis

Jonas Andrulis is an AI researcher, engineer and serial entrepreneur who has played a key role in shaping Europe’s AI landscape. Following the exit of his company Pallas Ludens, he held a senior role in AI research within Apple’s Special Projects Group. In 2019, he founded Aleph Alpha, built one of Europe’s most powerful AI clusters and raised over €500 million from leading institutional investors. He published one of the first modern multimodal language models as open source, presented a novel Transformer architecture together with AMD at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and, according to Stanford, made Aleph Alpha the most transparent commercial AI model provider worldwide. The company was most recently acquired by Cohere for a billion-euro sum.

With CNTR, founded in February 2026, he is pursuing a fundamentally different AI paradigm: rather than replacing human expertise with automation, CNTR places human knowledge and judgement at the heart of agent-based systems. The aim is to provide companies with a technological foundation that will not become obsolete with the next model update — but will secure their competitiveness in the long term.