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Energy and AI: Sustainable, Sovereign Industrial Campuses | Alain Wilmouth, 2CRSi | RAISE 2026
2CRSI advances its direct liquid cooling technology through the ITER consortium to power a French AI gigafactory while addressing energy mandates and carbon sovereignty via biomass gasification. The company plans to scale operations from 42 to 400 megawatts across 17 decentralized European sites by 2030, offering on-premise infrastructure that protects intellectual property against geopolitical restrictions. This strategy leverages unused agricultural land to generate jobs and targets space-deployable server models, positioning the firm as a leader in sustainable, sovereign high-performance computing.
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Fireside Chat with William Falcon & Ozan Kaya of Lightning AI | RAISE Summit 2026
William Falcon, Ozan Kaya, Olivier Huez, Will
Following a rapid expansion to 160 employees, Voltage Park merged with Lightning.ai to transition from a GPU-as-a-service provider into a full-stack platform serving Gen AI enterprises. This combination integrates 24,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs across six data centers with Will's software tooling to help clients own their open-source models rather than relying on hyperscalers. The strategic alliance addresses the market gap for dedicated compute, prioritizing high-uptime infrastructure and digital sovereignty for customers like Cursor.
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MiniMax: Scaling Intelligence for Everyone | Linda Sheng | RAISE Summit 2026
Minimax has transitioned into a global public leader by deploying its M3 multimodal model, which offers a million-token context window and natively processes text, video, and images across diverse data types. As enterprises advance through AI readiness generations, the company drives token consumption growth while advising founders to establish rapid evaluation benchmarks and leveraging twenty internal AI agents to streamline operations. Looking forward, Minimax predicts narrow-sense AGI in three years, anticipating immediate disruption in finance and legal sectors before healthcare, as organizations diversify models to mitigate vendor lock-in and adopt "co-work" workflows.
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AI's Role in Hiring Humans | Plural x Metaview | RAISE Summit 2026
Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, Siadhal Magos
MetaView transforms unstructured recruiting data into actionable insights for an $800 billion market by deploying its core AI workspace and the autonomous "Fillmore" agent to serve both startups and enterprises. The platform builds defensibility through compounding proprietary hiring data and a relentless focus on placement outcomes, enabling small teams to scale hiring capacity globally while removing historical human constraints. This technology shifts the industry toward a dual-role future where humans manage AI orchestration and high-EQ relationship building rather than manual screening.
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Deepfakes, Bots and Agentic Security | Pindrop x Palo Alto Networks | RAISE Summit 2026
Dr. Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Raphael Marichez, Rafael
Founded in 2011 by Dr. Balasubramanian, PinDrop commercialized "phone printing" technology to replace insecure legacy authentication with acoustic device fingerprinting for voice and video calls. The firm now addresses escalating threats from deepfakes, state-sponsored cyber espionage, and autonomous AI agents by deploying a three-pillar defense model that continuously monitors identity, intent, and action. As the digital landscape shifts toward an era of trillions of AI interactions, the technology ensures humans retain final agency for high-stakes transactions while neutralizing sophisticated fraud tactics.
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0 to $250M ARR in 12 Months: Genspark & the Global Knowledge Worker | RAISE Summit 2026
GenSpark, founded by MIT PhD Wen Sang and a team of ex-Google and Microsoft veterans, has scaled to $250 million ARR and 6,000 enterprise clients by transitioning from a product-led search engine to an AI agent orchestrator that automates complex business workflows. The company distinguishes itself by abstracting model complexity through a unified architecture that integrates over 70 underlying AI models, enabling rapid deployment of custom applications and driving efficiency gains such as a fivefold client increase for specific financial consultants. This technology was showcased at a New York Stock Exchange event where CEO Wen Sang detailed the shift from traditional software tools to autonomous agents that augment human creativity while redefining workforce productivity.
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Indexing Humanity: A Fireside With the Simulation Company | Simile | RAISE Summit 2026
Joon Sung Park, Sahir Azam, Jun
Simile, founded by former Stanford researchers including CEO Jun, has launched a foundational model of human behavior that replicates individual subpopulations with 85% accuracy for enterprise clients like CVS and Fortune 500 companies. Leveraging strategic partnerships with Gallup and Dynata to access a 20-million-person data panel, the company differentiates itself by prioritizing human imperfections and biases over pure algorithmic efficiency to augment corporate decision-making in market research and product development. Supported by Index Ventures, Simile operates on a four-stage simulation hierarchy ranging from individual dynamic testing to society-wide forecasting, while adhering to strict ethical principles regarding data consent and transparency.
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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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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.
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ALL-IN Podcast Live: Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder & CEO of ElevenLabs | RAISE Summit 2026
Mati Staniszewski, Jason Calacanis
ElevenLabs has scaled to $600 million in annual recurring revenue with 600 employees while maintaining a 100% retention rate for its original research team. The company differentiates itself through an AI-optimized organizational structure, proprietary IP safeguards that have returned over $22 million to creators, and strategic partnerships with figures like Matthew McConaughey. Looking ahead, CEO Mati Golan aims to achieve a voice Turing test by year-end, leveraging assistive technology for medical patients and a model-agnostic platform to remain independent of larger AI developers.
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ALL-IN Podcast Live: Pat Gelsinger, Partner at Playground Global | RAISE Summit 2026
Pat Gelsinger, Jason Calacanis
Intel's strategic decline is attributed to a shift from technical to financial leadership that prioritized shareholder returns over R&D, resulting in missed fabrication opportunities and the loss of key markets like Apple and NVIDIA. In response, CEO Pat Gelsinger is driving a foundry pivot and onshoring initiatives under the CHIPS Act to rebuild manufacturing capacity while navigating geopolitical risks centered on Taiwan's vulnerability. Concurrently, the broader semiconductor landscape is expected to mature through a multi-decade AI expansion constrained by energy limits, alongside anticipated quantum computing breakthroughs by 2030 that will redefine computational capabilities.
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RAISE Summit Opening: A Fireside with Mark Cuban & Anton Osika, Lovable | RAISE Summit 2026
Lovable enables founders, small businesses, and enterprise teams to generate over one million projects weekly by translating plain English descriptions into fully hosted, secure, and monetizable software solutions. The platform has driven significant cost savings, such as a million dollars annually for the healthcare staffing firm Nursa, while empowering non-technical users to act as "AI co-founders" by automating setup tasks like global payments and data governance. Looking ahead, Lovable aims to evolve from a code generation tool into a strategic business advisor that leverages agentic workflows to optimize customer acquisition and internal operations without requiring traditional engineering resources.
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ALL-IN Podcast Live: Mark Cuban | RAISE Summit 2026
Mark Cuban attributes recent NBA parity shifts to new salary cap rules that prevent three-peats while analyzing Jalen Brunson's franchise-driven move to the New York Knicks. He warns of an artificial AI valuation bubble fueled by private capital and warns that without breakthroughs in energy efficiency, massive data center investments risk becoming stranded assets. Concurrently, Cuban argues that AI will augment rather than replace white-collar workers, citing immediate benefits for entrepreneurs in prototyping and potential transformations in precision healthcare through integrated wearable data.
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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.
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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.