ATAILA Newsroom · Budapest ·
2026-W37
Day one at the AI Summit: the gigafactory is real, and Hungary is thinking about the region together with Poland
Day one of AI Summit Budapest is done. These notes were dictated to a phone from paper notes and edited by our own locally running AI agent. We photographed the slides, and the organiser will publish recordings shortly, so the full picture will come from there.
Zoltán Tanács: the gigafactory is real, and the region is a shared project
The opening talk was given by Zoltán Tanács, Minister for Science and Technology. Two things stayed with me. The AI gigafactory is a real plan, and Hungary is thinking about the Central European region together with Poland. Sovereignty sat behind the sentences throughout.
He also said company readiness differs sharply from country to country. That matches what we see: the technology is available everywhere, but adoption is not at the same point everywhere.
A dynamic, professional and interesting talk.
Google: how many tokens a unit of electricity buys
Two things came out of Antal Mihályi's session. Google Gemini Enterprise has launched in Hungary. And the second idea is exactly the one we work with: how many tokens you can produce from one unit of electricity.
We measure this at small scale ourselves, comparing one DGX Spark against four RTX 3090s. The same logic applies to model choice. Mid-size models are fast and cheap for many tasks, while very large models reach the same answer more slowly and on more electricity.
Hungarian Intellectual Property Office: IP Scan for startups
Dr. Ádám Miklós Sulyok, head of the office's Copyright Department, spoke on AI and copyright. It was a dense half hour with content all the way through, and we got answers to questions we have been carrying for a while.
The most useful concrete thing was IP Scan, the office's service that helps startups review their intellectual property. Thank you for the advice, and we are happy to pass it on: sztnh.gov.hu/kezdooldal/szolgaltatasok/ipscan. It is good to see the support this office gives Hungarian startups.
AWS: human approval, and the "strong enough" model
Dr. Kristóf Schum gave a fast session with a good speaker. Two things went into the notebook. One is the role of human approval in agentic workflows. The other is model selection: strong enough, but not too weak. The examples were good, and the live agentic demo worked well as teaching.
It left us with an open question. We are thinking about what a hybrid setup would look like, where ATAILA's locally running system meets the AWS side, through the Marketplace or identity for instance. No decision has been made.
One thing is worth adding, because we checked. Bedrock is a Region service today: the models run in AWS Regions, not on your own floor. So today the hybrid path runs through your own GPUs and open-weight models, which is exactly what we do.
Gábor Fauszt: agents that survive the AI Act
Gábor Fauszt spoke about building AI agents that hold up under the EU AI Act. A very good session, full of usable ideas. Local execution came up, and DGX with it, so this is the same work we do.
Péter Kopiás: five photos, and the product record writes itself
Péter Kopiás has been a role model of mine since childhood, and I have always thought of him as brilliant. His session impressed me again.
He showed a system that turns a handful of phone photos into a structured product record. Eleven runtimes work together behind it: text and image embedding, classic computer vision for QR, barcode and DataMatrix, OCR, vision-LLM extraction, an LLM for comparison, speech-to-text and text-to-speech, photogrammetry and object detection. It is obvious to me that something is being built here that will travel a long way. I am rooting hard for his international success.
End of the day: Hungarian robotics teams
It was good to see the Hungarian robot-building startups at the end of the day. Teams like this are already working at university level, and I genuinely wish them international success. I hope that success also becomes motivation for my own children.
What was on the slides? Session details
The slides were photographed from the audience, so this section covers only what was visible on the slides we photographed. No spoken content is included. The organiser will publish recordings shortly, and the full picture will come from there. Getting decks from speakers is hard, so until then these notes are the most accurate record we have.
- Zoltán Tanács, Minister for Science and Technology, opening talk, MBH Bank Visionary Stage, 9:10. "Kánaán vagy világvége? Mit hoz nekünk az AI?"
- Antal Mihályi, Engineering Manager, Google, 9:45. "Agentic enterprise, avagy a vállalati AI-ügynökök kora."
- Dr. Ádám Miklós Sulyok, head of the Copyright Department, Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, Future Lab, 10:50. "Kreativitás vs generálás – AZ AI & szerzői jogok."
- Dr. Kristóf Schum, European segment lead for agentic AI, Amazon Web Services, 12:05. "Agentic use case heatmap – Mi, hol és hogyan működik?"
- Gábor Fauszt, regional director, Future Lab, 12:20. "Compliance by design: building AI-Agents that survive the EU AI act."
- Péter Kopiás, Datastart Kft., Méta Open Lab, afternoon. Building a logistics service out of AI agents. On the slides, eleven runtimes work together to produce one product listing.
- The Méta Open Lab robotics block at the end of the day, with Hungarian teams.
We keep our detailed, slide-by-slide notes per speaker, and will correct them once the recordings appear.
What these notes are, and what they are not. We were there as a startup, on our own money, and it was worth it for the learning and the networking. This is a note written from the audience: we have checked no figures and pressure-tested no claims. I try to pass on as much of it as I can: to the ATAILA team, and in person at my day job too. I work in a good team there, and I learn something from my manager and the architects every day. This time I hope I am the one bringing them something worth hearing.
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