Prior Labs Acquired by SAP; TabPFN Creator on Tabular Data
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-08-26
This episode features Frank Hutter, professor at Freiburg and co-founder/CEO of Prior Labs, recently acquired by SAP for over $1 billion. The startup focuses on tabular data problems. Their model, TabPFN, is trained entirely on synthetic data and became the most cited Nature paper of 2025. The discussion covers in-context learning's impact on tabular data, the survival of XGBoost, and the decision to keep the lab independent.
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