Supporting More Than 20,000 SMEs Across EuropeThe SME AI Accelerator will aim to support more than 20,000 SMEs over the next year with free, hands-on training focused on practical applications of AI. While large European companies are already embedding AI into everyday workflows and seeing productivity gains, many small businesses face barriers to adoption. In 2025, AI adoption among small businesses stood at 17 percent, compared with 55 percent among large enterprises (Eurostat). The SME AI Accelerator aims to help close Europe’s AI capability gap, highlighted by new OpenAI data showing a widening disconnect between what frontier AI systems can do and how widely they are being used in practice. In the coming months, OpenAI and Booking.com will announce the national organisations supporting local delivery of the SME AI Accelerator, along with dates and locations for upcoming events.