Business and economy·October 30, 2026, 10:32

CEO: Denmark should not bet on building the largest AI models

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Mette Beck-Nielsen, CEO of Digital Dogme, does not believe Danish companies will win the AI race with their own large language models. According to Computerworld, she points to a different advantage, but the free portion of the article does not say which one.

Danish companies should not try to win the AI race by developing the largest language models. That is the view of Mette Beck-Nielsen, CEO of Digital Dogme. Language models are the programs behind things like chatbots that can write and answer text.

Instead, she believes Denmark has another obvious advantage that can be exploited. That is according to Computerworld.

What is known about the advantage

Computerworld's free introduction says that Denmark has historically ranked at the top of various digitalization lists, and that Danish companies are good at adopting new technology. Computerworld also writes that there is a large gap between Silicon Valley innovation and Danish boardrooms, and that AI's centers for both hardware and software are far from Denmark and Europe.

The article promises to explain why the advantage is neither technology nor chips, what separates companies with real AI value from those that are only experimenting, and how competitors can become a shortcut to AI success. The answers themselves are behind a paywall, so the free portion does not reveal what Beck-Nielsen specifically points to.

Focus on skills

Beck-Nielsen has previously emphasized AI skills. She initiated the AI skills pact. According to the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI Digital), 314,000 Danes had been upskilled in AI through more than 70 partners after the first year. That is roughly one third of the goal of 1 million.

According to Beck-Nielsen, six out of ten digital generalists have been upskilled. She believes their roles are changing markedly, and that they need AI skills to become what she calls "digital integrators." She describes them as the most in-demand profiles on the market.

In an op-ed in Altinget from December 2023, she wrote together with Camilla Ley Valentin of DI Digital that AI "eats" tasks from the bottom up. According to them, this requires higher digital skills at all employee levels and a better match between public education offerings and companies' needs.

The two earlier sources do not cover the Computerworld interview itself, but provide background for Beck-Nielsen's views.