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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit39 min
Failing to Understand the Exponential (Again) | Elastic, AWS, Nebius & More | RAISE Summit 2026
Ashutosh Kulkarni, Pim de Witte, Julien Lépine, Jeremy Fraenkel, Marc Boroditsky, Dylan Patel
A panel of industry leaders characterizes the current AI landscape as an exponential "first chapter" where rapid adaptation is essential, while noting that AWS maintains a strategic advantage by serving both commoditized and premium workloads through a hybrid CPU-GPU architecture. The discussion highlights a critical shift from indiscriminate token consumption to verifiable value creation, driven by the urgent need for AI engineers and the development of governance frameworks that treat agents as distinct security entities. Ultimately, the consensus is that while domains like software coding see immediate ROI, long-term success depends on enterprises leveraging proprietary context and verifying outputs within complex legacy infrastructure.
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Infrastructure as Destiny: The Compute-Capital-Cloud Trinity | RAISE Summit 2026
Stephanie Cohen, Don Barneston, Suresh Vasudevan, Greg Matson, Jeff Denworth, Jordan Nanos
Driven by a critical shortage of physical infrastructure against surging AI demand, the event highlights how neoclouds and vendors are shifting from speculative investment to immediate deployment through deep operational partnerships and aggressive capacity underwriting through 2028. Key industry leaders from companies like Cloudflare, Vast Data, and Solidigm discuss how architectural innovations in storage compression, isolated compute environments, and resilient interconnects are solving bottlenecks in copper, optics, and hardware failure rates. Looking ahead, the discussion projects a multi-decade expansion cycle marked by market consolidation, the emergence of machine-to-machine commerce, and the transition of AI inference into a ubiquitous cloud utility embedded within every application.
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Powering Europe's Industrial Renaissance | Paolo Guglielmini, NVIDIA | RAISE Summit 2026
Addressing a critical five-fold gap in global AI compute capacity, NVIDIA outlined a strategy for Europe to transition from a technology consumer to a builder by deploying the open Nemotron model stack alongside the upcoming Vera Rubin hardware architecture. This initiative targets a 35x efficiency gain in tokens per megawatt and aims to achieve a 10x expansion in AI capabilities by 2027 through synchronized growth across energy, chips, and applications. The speaker emphasized that achieving this industrial sovereignty requires deep collaboration with partners across France, Germany, and Poland to develop domain-specific solutions in robotics, biology, and agentic software.
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Sovereign AI: Piece by Piece | NetApp, Radiant, Hydra Host, Coatue & More | RAISE Summit 2026
George Kurian, Mahdi Yahya, Aaron Ginn, Max Cook, Benjamin Germin, Thomas Koehrer, Thomas Kova, Maddy, Ben
Industry leaders convened to define sovereign AI as a spectrum of national control over critical infrastructure, data residency, and model provenance rather than a binary state. While experts debated the feasibility of achieving true autonomy through hyperscalers, they agreed that geopolitical constraints and physical hardware limitations are driving significant investments in localized data centers and domestic chip ecosystems. The consensus projects a bifurcated future where the US and China maintain full-stack dominance, compelling other nations to navigate a complex landscape of duopoly dependency or costly independent infrastructure development.
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From Research to Reality: Why Open Source Is the Engine of AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Ion Stoica, Thomas Wolf, Dillon Rolnick, Eiso Kant, Robin Rombach, Mark Porter, Dylan Rolnick
Founders from Poolside, Databricks, Neuse Research, and Hugging Face, moderated by Mark Porter, convened to debate preventing AI monopoly through open-weight models rather than closed ecosystems. The panelists argued that open source remains the only viable path for critical sectors like robotics and scientific discovery while highlighting risks of geopolitical bias and regulatory lockout under current centralized control. Ultimately, the group emphasized a strategic shift toward commoditized infrastructure and real-world evaluation to avoid security fears and drive the next wave of physical and scientific breakthroughs.
- Y Combinator29 min
Why Ambitious Startup Ideas Are Actually Easier To Sell
PostHog is transitioning from an open-source analytics platform to an AI-driven service that autonomously fixes engineering issues and solves customer support tickets by generating production-ready pull requests. Co-founders James and Tim restructured their operations to align with this new "self-driving software" vision, delegating management duties to the latter so the former can focus exclusively on AI product architecture while the company doubles in size. This strategic pivot replaces traditional manual product management with a system where AI configures workflows and implements fixes based on deep user data, aiming to secure massive market valuation through "insane" ambition rather than conservative growth.
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The Chip Revolution: Beyond GPUs to Tomorrow's Processors | RAISE Summit 2026
Robert Wachen, Sara Achour, Walter Goodwin, Antoine Moyroud, Rob
Industry experts from Unconventional.ai, Etched, and Fractile outline a pivotal shift where inference spending will soon surpass training, driven by the emergence of autonomous agents and a transition from GPU-centric compute to system-level challenges in memory bandwidth and thermal management. While Unconventional.ai bets on physics-based dynamics to achieve 1,000x energy efficiency, Etched pursues vertical integration for trillion-parameter models and Fractile optimizes for time as the primary bottleneck. These startups aim to capitalize on hardware design expansion and software automation to overcome current utilization limits that leave data centers operating at only 30-40% matrix multiply efficiency.
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AI Has a Memory Problem | Gelsinger, SK hynix & More | RAISE Summit 2026
Gelsinger, Hoshik Kim, Vijay Shilpiekandula, Andrew Homan, Louis Delahaye
The global semiconductor industry is currently navigating a critical bottleneck where exponential AI demand for larger context windows outpaces the linear supply growth of High Bandwidth Memory, leaving the market in a 26% deficit. While a duopoly of SK Hynix and Samsung dominates existing capacity, architects like Cerebras and D-Matrix are pioneering stacked memory solutions expected to boost bandwidth by 50 times, though these innovations will not reach volume production until the late 2020s. Consequently, memory has evolved from a volatile commodity into a strategic infrastructure asset, characterized by long-term contracts and deep supply chain vulnerabilities that threaten global stability amid geopolitical tensions and complex manufacturing constraints.
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Welcome to the New Frontier of Agentic AI | Wiz, Merge, You.com & More | RAISE Summit 2026
Yinon Costica, Gil Feig, Richard Rizk, Saahil Jain, Ed Huang, Jordan Nanos
Organizations are shifting from single-model reliance to multi-model routing architectures driven by cost sensitivity, governance compliance, and task-specific performance benchmarks. Experts emphasize that successful agentic deployment now depends on engineering harness quality, stable data graphs, and end-to-end token-level encryption rather than raw model intelligence. As the industry transitions into an engineering challenge, future differentiation will stem from strategic tool integrations and robust governance layers that enable safe, long-horizon autonomous workflows.
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Pilot to Production: The Valley of Death and How to Cross It | RAISE Summit 2026
Barak Kaufman, Jonathan Corbin, Euro Beinat, Ivan Burazin, Ariel Shulman, Venkat Pullela, Yvonne, Juro
A panel of industry leaders from companies including Keysight, Bright Data, and Prozus discussed the strategic pivot from AI proof-of-concept pilots to secure, scalable enterprise production. The group emphasized that overcoming legacy system bottlenecks and establishing robust data guardrails are essential for transitioning agents into critical workflows, citing Prozus's success with over 60,000 internally built agents. Furthermore, the discussion highlighted a shift in adoption strategies toward model-agnostic architectures and revenue-focused ROI metrics rather than mere cost reduction.
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Building Global out of Europe in the AI Era | Jan Oberhauser, n8n | RAISE Summit 2026
N8N positions itself as an open-source AI workflow orchestration layer that connects diverse models and applications, a strategy validated by adoption from major enterprises like Microsoft, SAP, and the German government. By prioritizing model agnosticism and a "fair code" license, the platform enables organizations to maintain data sovereignty and switch providers to optimize costs and mitigate supply chain risks. Supported by a global network of partners and community ambassadors, N8N continues to expand its enterprise footprint by evolving from a tool for technical builders into an accessible infrastructure for non-technical users to deploy robust, ROI-driven AI solutions.
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The Foundation Model Revolution for Structured Data | Frank Hutter, Prior Labs | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded 18 months ago by Frank Hutter, Souraj Gambier, and Noah, Prior Labs has developed TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that processes structured enterprise data in seconds without retraining. The company achieved state-of-the-art performance on the TabArena leaderboard and delivered measurable results for major clients like Hitachi and Credit Agricole before signing a definitive acquisition agreement with SAP. Under this deal, SAP will invest over €1 billion to scale Prior Labs as an independent European sovereign AI hub while preserving its open-source models and research leadership.
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Scaling Global AI Infrastructure | Kevin Cochrane, Vultr | RAISE Summit 2026
Vulture's representative, a recent ultra-running record holder, announced the "Vulture AI Factory," a unified infrastructure stack launching with SUSE to support sovereign cloud operations and decouple GPU inference from CPU orchestration. The speaker outlined a new 30-year "super cycle" of compute innovation while revealing open-source breakthroughs like the Voltron Retriever model and new integrations with NVIDIA, AMD, Dell, and NetApp. Highlighting enterprise adoption through a Marriott International use case and recent hackathon victories in clinical trials and telco operations, the event emphasized a strategic shift toward decentralized, agentic AI architectures.
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Opening Fireside: Ramin Hasani, Liquid AI & Ion Stoica, Arena | RAISE Summit 2026
Ramin Hasani, Ion Stoica, Rachel Metz, Ayaan, Ian
Led by MIT-derived algorithms and advised by Databricks co-founder Ian, Liquid AI is deploying energy-efficient, hardware-agnostic foundation models designed to run locally on consumer-grade chips rather than massive data centers. This approach addresses a shifting market where enterprises prioritize security and regulatory control by replacing expensive, closed-source systems with open-weight alternatives that offer near-parity in performance for specific tasks like coding and office work. The discussion further highlights a strategic pivot toward specialized "cities" of smaller, deterministic models that interact within agentic pipelines to ensure reliable, human-liability-backed deployment across industries.
- All-In Podcast42 min
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
Mark Cuban, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
The current AI investment landscape is characterized by a distinct bubble where capital concentrated in private markets creates vulnerability for venture funds and data center overbuilding rather than systemic public risk. While enterprise adoption faces hurdles in autonomy and regulatory M&A restrictions, the sector is evolving toward world models and robotics, with startups leveraging reduced prototyping costs and geographic shifts to Texas and Florida to bypass coastal regulations. Simultaneously, political narratives are being reshaped by AI's potential to favor factual accuracy over engagement, even as diverse industries from healthcare to sports adapt by utilizing AI for data aggregation and shifting valuation metrics toward digital reach.