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AI adoption and integration in the Balkans

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Artificial intelligence adoption is expanding continues to expand across various sectors in the Balkan region. region, spanning government services, legal research, and deep-tech development. In Albania, local startups like UnyoCorp are focusing on AI-driven software and gaming to boost employment, while the government has introduced deployed four new AI systems via the e-Albania platform. These include platform, including a Legal Overlay system to identify for legislative ambiguities, ambiguity, an AI module for EU legislative alignment, alignment module, the eIAD system for tax anomaly detection, and ‘Diella’, a virtual assistant for citizen support. assistant. Local startups like UnyoCorp are also utilizing AI in software and gaming to drive employment. In Serbia, the Growww AI Engine is developing advancing sovereign AI through a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) approach to sovereign artificial intelligence. This technology allows highly for regulated sectors, such as banking and telecommunications, to run AI sectors like banking. In Belgrade, the deep-tech startup UkisAI is focusing on efficiency by transforming open-weights models within their own infrastructure to prevent sensitive data from being transferred into smaller, task-specific models. The company recently released a dataset of approximately 15,200 agentic traces for coding and software engineering to external providers. support model development. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Public Procurement Agency has integrated uses an AI-powered AI chatbot to provide verified access to for legal and e-procurement information. However, legal experts, including information, though experts like Nasir Muftić from the University warn of Sarajevo, have emphasized the need for regulatory frameworks to address accountability if AI provides incorrect information. frameworks. Additionally, experiments using ChatGPT to evaluate political performance in the Tuzla Canton have emerged, though these ranked the current government, led by Irfan Halilagić, as the most successful to date based on investment and stability, while noting that final historical assessments remain preliminary. are not yet possible. In Croatia, the legaltech application Ulpian has been introduced to automate legal research in Croatian and European law. Developed tool Ulpian, developed by Ozren Kobsa and Sandra Ćatović Stručić, the tool is described has been introduced to automate legal research. Described as ‘verifiable legal AI,’ providing it provides answers alongside specific legal sources to allow for facilitate human verification.

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