Industry Findings: Public capital is being deployed to build a sovereign R&D and compute base, shifting procurement priorities toward vendors that can partner on long-term national programmes. Poland announced a dedicated AI Fund (PLN 1 billion) and an AI Council in Nov-2024, signalling multi-year public support for domestic model development and industrial AI projects. That funding profile raises the commercial value of vendors that commit to co-funded R&D, residency guarantees and local skilling — because buyers now expect suppliers to demonstrate credible national partnerships and measurable capacity-building beyond one-off pilots.
Industry Progression: Major hyperscaler commitments are converting policy into usable local capacity and partner channels: Microsoft announced a PLN 2.8 billion investment in cloud, AI infrastructure, skilling and cybersecurity in Poland in Feb-2025, which materially increases on-shore hosting and partner enablement. This strengthens enterprise and research access to production-grade compute, shortens PoC-to-production cycles for latency-sensitive workloads and forces local integrators to repackage solutions for residency and compliance.
Industry Player Insights: The supplier map blends global cloud players with regional integrators and strong domestic systems houses that are converting local R&D into production offerings. Notable local developments include Allegro’s public tests of an AI shopping assistant (mobile tests launched Nov-2025) and Asseco’s ongoing productisation of AI and automation solutions (product showcases Oct-2024). Vendors such as Microsoft, Google Cloud, AWS, NVIDIA, Allegro and Asseco are now competing on combined offers that include hosting, MLOps and sector skilling — and those who can show Poland-specific deployments and local partner ecosystems win public and enterprise procurement more quickly.