RAISE Summit
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- 20 min
ALL-IN Podcast Live: Max Junestrand, CEO & Founder of Legora | RAISE Summit 2026
Max Junestrand, Jason Calacanis
Legora has accelerated to over $100 million in annual revenue while deploying a specialized "legal engineer" workforce to integrate AI-driven end-to-end agents for enterprise legal operations. The company differentiates itself through narrow, fine-tuned models and a proprietary data moat that replaces manual contract review and reduces transaction timelines to as few as twelve days. By compressing legal costs by up to 90% and bypassing the inefficiencies of traditional law firms, Legora is disrupting a market dominated by legacy providers like LexisNexis with a strategy focused on rapid scaling and cross-jurisdictional compliance.
- 18 min
AI's Dropout Problem: Why the Best Agents Never Stop Learning | Decagon | RAISE Summit 2026
Ashwin Sreenivas, Arjun Kharpal, Alan Palleringham, Seth Vargoe
Decagon delivers an outcome-based platform for regulated enterprises that enables large organizations to collaboratively build and safely deploy AI agents across voice, chat, and text channels. The company differentiates itself through a robust deployability layer featuring a testing suite, real-time production monitoring, and a learning loop that automates improvements based on escalated human interactions. By prioritizing infrastructure, compliance, and model cost-efficiency over raw capability, Decagon targets high-stakes sectors like finance and telecommunications to minimize brand risk while driving revenue growth.
- 18 min
CJ Desai, MongoDB & Laura Modiano, OpenAI in Conversation | RAISE Summit 2026
MongoDB, a cloud-native database serving 67,500 customers including JPMorgan Chase, differentiates itself as the only hybrid multi-cloud solution capable of unifying vector data, operational records, and auto-embeddings to support AI-native architectures. As enterprises transition toward 2026 production-grade agentic systems, the platform addresses critical scaling bottlenecks by offering schemaless flexibility that accommodates compressed AI model iteration cycles of just six weeks. This strategic positioning enables organizations to move beyond prototyping by solving data sovereignty concerns while accelerating innovation through forward-deployed engineering support and a unified data layer that eliminates the need for separate vector stores.
- 7 min
Who Controls AI? The Open Source Imperative | Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Arthur Mensch, Mark Surman, Henri Delahaye
Speakers Arthur and Marc outline a strategic framework for artificial intelligence sovereignty that prioritizes domestic compute security, affordability, and sustainability to mitigate economic inequality and social unrest. They identify open source technology as a critical mechanism for nations to retain control over essential infrastructure, preventing foreign dependency while fostering a global ecosystem where open components serve as the dominant building blocks within the next decade. Although this shift from proprietary chatbots to shared infrastructure is widely anticipated, the speakers warn that realizing this future requires sustained research funding and coordinated interoperability to overcome significant capital and partnership challenges.
- 22 min
AI Is the New Operating Environment. Data Is the New Control Plane. | RAISE Summit 2026
The speaker identifies that the AI arms race hinges on compressing time across token generation, environment deployment, and data orchestration. By replacing legacy 2D client-server protocols with a Linux kernel-native 3D parallel file system, the technology virtualizes existing storage assets to slash deployment timelines by a factor of 70 and eliminates bottlenecks during GPU training. This architectural shift not only mitigates current SSD shortages through efficient hybrid HDD-NVMe and tape strategies but also directly reduces capital and operational expenditures in high-performance computing environments.
- 20 min
Industrializing Intelligence: Building the AI Factory as a System | Vertiv | RAISE Summit 2026
Giordano Albertazzi, Gio Albertazzi
As the AI sector pivots from proven technology to maximizing useful output, infrastructure constraints are driving a shift toward "manufacturing data centers" that prioritize tokens per megawatt over traditional efficiency metrics. Vertiv champions a converged system approach that eliminates seam inefficiencies through pre-engineered modular solutions, enabling grid-interactive powertrains and reducing deployment time by half. This strategy directly lowers the cost per token by ensuring rapid capacity scaling and future-proofing infrastructure for next-generation silicon.
- 21 min
The ROI on Intelligence: Turning AI Investment into Enterprise Transformation | RAISE Summit 2026
Jordan Topoleski, Pallavi Mahajan, Peter Elstrom
Jordan Topolesky of Cursor and representatives from Nokia describe a critical industry shift from tracking AI input costs to optimizing for business outcomes, evidenced by a case where AI spending was cut 26% without reducing production code rates. This transition has driven organizational restructuring, including role compression and smaller, more efficient teams that leverage dynamic model selection to handle complex parallel workflows. Complementing these operational changes, INSEAD's Philippe Agnon highlights that while AI efficiency modestly boosts GDP, its primary economic value lies in expanding execution capacity to foster higher-quality strategic ideation and new product innovation.
- 14 min
Rewiring the Web: Data Access, AI Agents & the Next Digital Revolution | RAISE Summit 2026
Juras Juršėnas, Fred de Villamil, Chet Haase, Romain Guyett, Francois Chollette, Francisco Neri, Gérald
The event analyzes how the AI era has intensified the demand for live web data while rendering traditional scraping techniques obsolete due to sophisticated anti-bot defenses and shifting regulatory landscapes. It highlights critical economic tensions between content publishers and AI developers, arguing that the current ad-revenue model is threatened by AI aggregators that bypass source websites without compensation. Strategic recommendations focus on transitioning web infrastructure to be optimized for AI agents and establishing new frameworks for data monetization to ensure sustainable value distribution in the emerging agentic commerce ecosystem.
- 45 min
Startup Competition Final: RAISE the STAKES | RAISE Summit 2026
Gleb Budman, Cyrille Saint Olive, Luke Pappas, Shahab Shafieehanjani, Cyril, Rodrigo, Kinga Matua, Charles
Raise Summit's Raise the Stakes 2026 competition attracted 750 founders from 79 nations who collectively hold $800 million in valuation, with the event judged by executives from Backblaze, Google for Startups, and NEA. The jury selected CurryGen as the top winner for its proprietary biological data workflows, while Neural Trust and Strawberry Browser secured second and third places respectively for their enterprise security and agentic browser platforms. This cohort of finalists represents a high-growth segment of the AI ecosystem that has already raised $56 million and is poised to address urgent market needs in security, drug discovery, and workflow automation.
- 19 min
Fireside Chat with Parag Agrawal, Founder & CEO of Parallel Web Systems | RAISE Summit 2026
Parag Agrawal, Karim Jalbout, Vineet Bhanwajani, Vineet Bhanuri, Vineeth Pandey, Vikas Khannabiswamy
Parallels founder Vikas Khannabhiswamy redefined the scale of AI web usage, forecasting agents will consume data 100,000 to 1,000,000 times more than humans by deploying a specialized infrastructure layer for high-volume knowledge work. The platform addresses critical limitations of standard LLMs by integrating real-time web search and applying Shapley values to automate fair compensation for content owners, thereby disrupting traditional web monetization models. This approach targets sectors like AI law, science, and coding while establishing a new revenue framework where publishers are paid proportionally to their specific data contribution.
- 37 min
Powering AI Infrastructure: Solving the 21st Century Manhattan Project | RAISE Summit 2026
Shaun O'Meara, Alex Saroyan, Vik Malyala, Ben Richardson, June Paik, Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros, Jeremy, Sean Amara, Jun
By 2027, major AI infrastructure players like Anthropic and CoreWeave aim to scale capacity to tens of gigawatts while overcoming significant hurdles in power delivery, regulatory fragmentation, and supply chain delays. Industry leaders such as Ben Richardson and Sean Amara advocate for standardized, modular architectures and digital twin simulations to mitigate execution risks and reduce the total cost of ownership for inference-heavy workloads. This strategic shift prioritizes operational reliability and full-stack interoperability to support the transition from centralized training clusters to distributed enterprise inference environments.
- 20 min
AI Compute: Rebuilt for the Agentic Era | Mark Papermaster, AMD | RAISE Summit 2026
Mark Papermaster, Karim Jalbout
Driven by a surge in AI adoption that propelled its market capitalization from $200 billion to nearly $1 trillion, AMD is targeting server CPU market leadership through a holistic system design philosophy that includes the upcoming 72-node "Helios" rack and two-nanometer "Venice" processors. The company has transitioned from component manufacturing to integrated rack-level solutions by acquiring ZT Systems and deploying open-standard AI stacks across major European supercomputers to address data sovereignty and energy efficiency demands. Underpinning this growth is a scrappy corporate culture focused on customer collaboration, which has enabled a strategic shift toward agentic AI workflows and expanded training for its 33,000-person workforce to align with enterprise needs.
- 25 min
AI, Security & Economic Power: A New Playbook for Democracies | Sebastian Kurz | RAISE Summit 2026
Sebastian Kurz, Jacob Helberg, Sebastian Matthes
At the second Pax Silicon Summit in Washington, European nations acceded to the Paxilica initiative while leaders like Jacob and Sebastian debated the viability of sovereign AI against a backdrop of historic U.S. economic growth driven by an AI boom. The discussion highlighted a strategic divergence where the U.S. promotes an ecosystem-based approach to sovereignty and deregulation, contrasting with European concerns over the Digital Markets Act and the high costs of total vertical integration. Ultimately, experts emphasized that while foundational model dominance remains difficult for Europe, securing critical infrastructure and shifting toward competitiveness are essential to prevent total reliance on superpowers or losing the financial capacity for social welfare.
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Qasar Younis, Applied Intuition & Mamoon Hamid, Kleiner Perkins | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded by automotive veterans Mamoun Lachheb and Peter, Applied Intuition pivoted from a robotic taxi ambition to a self-funding platform generating revenue from commercial L4 trucking in Japan and a multi-hundred million dollar defense sector. The company now distinguishes "Physical AI" through end-to-end transformer models that enable dynamic human-machine collaboration across diverse vehicle form factors while maintaining radical pragmatism by keeping 93% of its $1 billion in capital on the balance sheet. This strategy supports a culture of radical pragmatism where over 1,000 engineers prioritize profitability and survival, fostering a "founders mafia" of 40 alumni who spin out new ventures using the company's shared infrastructure.
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Fireside Chat with Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Co-CEO of Periodic Labs | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded by former Google Brain and DeepMind researchers, a new company is deploying a hybrid infrastructure of large language models, reinforcement learning, and high-throughput robotics to overcome data limitations in physical science. The Bay Area laboratory automates semiconductor and materials research by executing thousands of daily experiments to create a recursive improvement cycle for chip manufacturing and solid-state chemistry. With an immediate goal of reaching 1,000 experimental trials per day, the venture aims to generate rapid process engineering breakthroughs for the industry while evolving toward profitable intellectual property generation.