Latest Interviews
Showing 1–15 of 59 transcripts.
Clear all filters- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit20 min
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.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Why the Next Marketing Giant Will Be Hyperlocal, Not Global | HubKonnect | RAISE Summit 2026
Michael outlines a critical market shift where enterprise marketing transitions from national campaigns to hyperlocal activation driven by a centralized intelligence layer that compounds data across millions of location-specific points. This operational reset requires C-suite alignment to replace obsolete agency models with an "Ecosystem as a Service" approach, ensuring data reciprocity and transforming marketers into real-time profit center drivers using Hyperlocal Intelligence. Ultimately, the differentiator for future growth lies not in isolated SaaS tools but in "better operators" who leverage proprietary datasets to execute culture shifts that empower rapid, data-informed decision-making at the individual unit level.
- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Six Days in the Field: What a Defense Deployment Teaches About Sovereign AI | RAISE Summit 2026
Dan Wright, Dr. Chaouki Kasmi, Tala Aj Jabri, Shawi Kasmi
UAE-based Taktika AI and US-based Armada successfully deployed a modular, AI-enabled data center in a remote, isolated field environment within six days to address urgent maritime and geospatial intelligence challenges. This sovereign infrastructure operates as a fully air-gapped system, delivering speed and resiliency by utilizing pre-existing mobile assets rather than relying on external cloud providers or complex supply chains. The partnership aims to replicate this high-efficiency model in Europe and the US, targeting organizations with stranded data assets while adapting the technology for both defense and non-defense sectors.
- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit20 min
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.
- RAISE Summit36 min
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.
- RAISE Summit38 min
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.
- RAISE Summit39 min
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.
- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit21 min
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.
- RAISE Summit32 min
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.