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An Inconvenient Truth About European AI Sovereignty

July 14, 2026 | Stijn Tonk

Europe's AI sovereignty debate is all about the frontier model we do not have. The bigger gap is the AI business harness we never built: the operating layer that ties a model to your business, makes it useful, safe and trustworthy, and turns the model itself into the part you can swap.

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France is showing Europe how to build an AI ecosystem

June 25, 2026 | Vincent Hoogsteder

France has committed €655 million to sovereign AI. The money matters less than the example it sets. When Europe's largest companies and governments choose European models, infrastructure and software, the whole ecosystem grows with them.

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10 Pitfalls of Developing Impactful AI, and How to Prevent Them

December 2, 2025 | Vincent Hoogsteder

Everyone talks about AI. Getting a solution off the drawing board and into the daily work of real people is another matter. Wolters Kluwer Schulinck and Mozaik have worked together from first idea to commercial launch of several successful AI applications, and it was no walk in the park.

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Our partnership with SST

December 2, 2025 | Vincent Hoogsteder

We believe AI should come as end-to-end applications that are fully integrated into working processes and a joy to use. That is why we are partnering with SST Software.

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Co-creating Code with LLMs

June 12, 2025 | Colin Kerkhof

We keep looking for ways to use Large Language Models for more than code completion, and to bring them into the more complex, project-specific parts of development.

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Mastering AI Engineering: Structured Output with Multiple Candidates

April 3, 2025 | Colin Kerkhof

Getting consistent, reliable output from LLMs is one of the harder problems in applied AI engineering. In several of our projects we had to balance accurate structured output against the variability of the models. Our answer combines structured output with sampling the most common response from multiple candidates.

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Accelerating AI: The Power of Interoperability

February 11, 2025 | Vincent Hoogsteder

We all have that drawer full of chargers at home. It took USB-C a decade to clean that up, because vendors only embrace interoperability when the market forces them to. AI works differently, and has from day one.

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AI Agents: Why So Many People Are Starting to Talk About Them

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

AI agents do more than talk. They take decisions and act on them, from ordering inventory to following up with customers. What they are, where they are useful, and how to run them without losing control of your data.

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AI’s tricky path for content & software providers

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

AI is a big opportunity for content and software providers, but it also puts the customer interface, the competitive position and control over data at risk. How providers can capture the upside without the downside.

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Computer vision is having another ImageNet moment

December 5, 2024 | Stijn Tonk

More than a decade after the ‘deep learning revolution’ turned computer vision upside down, another shift is underway, and this one is about making computer vision simpler and more accessible than it has ever been.

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Data has a new end-user, and that changes everything

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

For years we built data platforms and products on the assumption that the end-user is a person behind a screen, clicking around in data tools and dashboards. That assumption no longer holds.

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Exploring 5 Use Cases of Large Language Models

December 5, 2024 | Gert Jan Spriensma

Large Language Models are rapidly changing how businesses operate and work with data. We look at five use cases, how they work and what they have delivered so far, from Klarna's support assistant to sales agents.

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Introducing Mozaik

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

Today we introduce Mozaik. We define, design and develop AI applications for organizations, and help them from the first idea to a working product. It is the most exciting time in data technology we have seen.

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Introducing Stijn Tonk as Partner at Mozaik

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

Stijn Tonk joins Gert Jan Spriensma and Vincent Hoogsteder as partner on the Mozaik management team. He has spent years building platforms, leading teams and running data and AI work for some of the world's largest organisations.

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Is AI really too expensive for your business case?

December 5, 2024 | Gert Jan Spriensma

Most people know the big names like OpenAI, whose models are impressive but expensive to run. Meanwhile a growing range of other models has appeared, and it is getting harder to tell which one you need.

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Pushing a RAG prototype to production

December 5, 2024 | Gert Jan Spriensma

In the past months we helped one of our customers bring a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) prototype into production. Here are the main lessons and milestones from those two months.

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Shifting AI projects from Islands to Cornerstones

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

The first AI project in any company is the chance to deliver on high expectations and get people excited for more. We believe you do this by avoiding an isolated case and building a Cornerstone use-case instead.

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The AI advantage for companies that have not built a data warehouse yet

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

This is a rare moment where companies that have waited to build a data warehouse have an advantage in their AI development. It comes down to which technology works best for AI.

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How AI is reshaping the way we find information online

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

The way we search the internet is changing fast. AI tools like Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are changing how we find and use information online.

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The era of choice in AI

December 5, 2024 | Vincent Hoogsteder

We've entered the era of choice in AI. After a year of OpenAI dominance, you can now pick from equally capable models, in the same price range, from vendors in Silicon Valley to Paris. It is possible to build use-cases on hybrid models, and overall pricing has dropped 4x in just 15 months. It's a great time to build in AI.

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Unlocking Company Data Potential; The Role of Vector Embeddings

December 5, 2024 | Gert Jan Spriensma

When we meet clients who have been briefed internally, they often have a basic grasp of terms like vector embeddings. Usually they know why it is needed, but not how it works or what it takes to implement.

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What are tokens and why do they matter?

December 5, 2024 | Gert Jan Spriensma

If you've been exploring AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in particular, you've probably come across the term token. It usually comes up around pricing, where fees are based on the number of tokens, typically per thousand.

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