👋 Johannes Hötter

Kern AI

At Kern AI, we're building the next-gen AI platform helping teams to collaborate and successfully implement LLM use cases.

Co-Founder & CEO

path2.ai

I founded path2.ai during my master's studies together with Henrik Wenck. We wanted to understand what problems companies face when implementing meaningful artificial intelligence. During this time, we helped organizations take their first steps towards AI, e.g. by implementing pilot projects or presenting AI in workshops. We also helped existing AI teams by providing insights into the state of research in computer vision, natural language processing, and document classification.

Founder & CEO

GAMBIT Consulting GmbH

Associate Data Migration Consultant

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Tutor Programming and Linear Algebra

My main goal at Kern AI is to help enterprise teams successfully deploy Large Language Model (LLM) applications in their daily business. 

To do so, I post regularly about AI best practices in theory, strategy, and hands-on use cases - and at Kern AI, we build the collaborative next-gen AI platform to put everything into practice.

At Kern AI (previously onetask), we aim to build a dev environment for AI training data with which we aim to provide both higher-quality and higher-quantity training data. If you are interested in how we do this, check out our website www.kern.ai

There's never been a better time to check out this resource. It is my #1 book on AI, all-time. It addresses so well-written how jobs/roles change if certain tasks become extremely efficient to be solved - which is what we're seeing e.g. in software engineering or medical use cases. Perfectly describes the scenario we currently are in regarding AI.

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Geschäftsführer Kern AI (acq. by accompio)

English content on LI: "We deployed AI agents and here is what happened"
German content on LI: Another rant about Deutsche Bahn

Come on ...

statworx

statworx ist ein führendes KI-Technologieunternehmen, das seinen Kunden Beratung und Lösungen in den Bereichen Data Science, Machine Learning und AI bietet.

AI Hub Frankfurt

Der AI Hub Frankfurt ist das führende KI-Ökosystem in Frankfurt und Rhein-Main. Durch spezielle Programme, Veranstaltungen und Netzwerkaktivitäten trägt der AI Hub dazu bei, Frankfurt Rhein-Main zu einem relevanten Standort für KI-Innovation und dessen Anwendung zu machen und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Region zu stärken.

IHK Frankfurt am Main

Vorstandsmitglied Start-up Ausschuss

AI Frankfurt Rhein-Main e.V.

AI Frankfurt bringt die verschiedenen KI-Akteure und Initiativen in der Region Rhein-Main zusammenbringen mit dem Ziel, ihr Wissen, ihre Expertise und ihre Erfahrungen zu bündeln und transparent zu machen.

Vorstandsmitglied

Investor / Advisor

Prematch

neuroflash

Horizon - We're hiring!

FLOWIT AG

8080 Labs (exited)

Founder & CEO @ statworx | CEO @ AI Hub Frankfurt | Board Member @ AI Frankfurt e.V. | Investor | Advisor | Speaker

Hi, my name is Sebastian. Welcome to my profile 👋

I am an entrepreneur and expert in the Data & AI space with over a decade of industry experience.

As the founder and CEO of statworx, a leading Data & AI company in the DACH region, as well as the AI Hub Frankfurt, the central AI ecosystem in Frankfurt Rhein-Main and beyond, I am committed to shaping the AI transformation in Germany. 🚀

Besides that, I am an active business angel and early-stage investor in AI startups. 🦄

I frequently speak at conferences and panels, and give keynotes about my favorite topic: AI 🤩 Particularly, I am interested in the AI transformation of businesses, our economy, and society.

In my free time, you can find me with my family, on the streets of Frankfurt, or in my kitchen, experimenting as an ambitious hobby chef while enjoying a glass of excellent wine.🍷👨‍🍳

Sebastian Heinz

Nano Banana Pro is pretty wild.

Especially the level of detail in generated photos is stunning.
Insane creative (disruption) potential unlocked.

Probably one of the most important model releases in 2025.

You should give it a spin.

AI Week Frankfurt 2025: Behind the Scenes 🎥
What you didn't see on LinkedIn.
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AI Week Frankfurt 2025 is officially in the books.

This year's edition was a major step forward across the board: more visitors, a bigger venue, and a stronger lineup.

To capture what usually stays hidden, we produced a short behind-the-scenes video that shows the creative chaos, the last-minute fixes, the team running on adrenaline, and the genuine passion that fuels the entire #AIW crew: 💡💻Marcel Isbert, Tobias Stein, Julius Heinz, Lea Knappmann, Denis Semih Klug, Daniel Klug. 

Of course, such a video can only show a small slice of the dedication behind this project but it offers a glimpse of what drives us.

Looking ahead to AI Week Frankfurt 2026:

- We will raise the bar again.
- Closer integration of deep-tech content and real-world use cases.
- Stronger exchange between corporates, startups, and policy makers.
- More opportunities for AI startups and investors.
- More international voices: A global stage for AI.
- New interactive AI experiences that go beyond B2B.
- A more streamlined coffee supply 😏
- And all the things we haven't thought of yet.

In 2025 Frankfurt showed up.
The #AIW team delivered. 
In 2026 will go bigger, better, and even more ambitious.

Frankfurt, let’s build this together.

#AI #Frankfurt #AIW

The hard truth about AI's impact on children, education and socialization:

"AI shows undeniable potential to improve education and enrich entertainment. It may one day let every child live like royalty. But the truly privileged may be those whose parents and teachers know when to turn it off."

Great read about the impact of AI on children, education and socialization.

Gift link (works 5 times):
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Quo vadis, Open Source AI?
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I read Peter Gostev's post this morning and agree with most of his reasoning. 

The economic logic of spending hundreds of millions (or soon billions) into training frontier models only to release them for free does not add up in the long run.

IMHO a more realistic outcome is a dual-ecosystem equilibrium:

- Closed: Hyper-capex, AGI-oriented labs with full vertical integration (chips, software etc.) and tightly controlled frontier models.
- Open: Efficient, agile, community-driven stacks that power the majority of real-world workloads through smaller, cheaper, and highly optimized models.

One further thought: if AGI-level systems ever emerge, it seems implausible that they would be openly released. The risk profile pushes toward strict access controls. However, we might see smaller, heavily constrained derivatives made widely available.

A likely trajectory:

The frontier stays proprietary, the mass market will be open.

Both ecosystems evolve in parallel, but start to diverge as they begin to serve fundamentally different purposes.

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