# SAP will buy German AI startup Prior Labs for an undisclosed amount.

*business · news · 2026-05-05 · TechCrunch*

## Key points

- SAP will acquire German AI startup Prior Labs and invest €1 billion over four years to grow it.
- Prior Labs specializes in tabular foundation models, better suited for enterprise data than language models.
- The acquisition was an almost all cash deal valued at well over half a billion dollars up front.
- SAP is blocking third-party AI agents, authorizing only its Joule Agents and Nvidia's NemoClaw toolkit.
- Prior Labs' open source models have over three million downloads and will remain independently operated within SAP.

**Companies:** SAP
**Countries:** Germany

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