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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs18 min
The Future of Software Engineering: Cognition’s Russell Kaplan
Cognition, founded by former Olympiad medalists and now valued at $4 billion, is advancing software engineering by deploying Devin, an autonomous AI agent capable of executing end-to-end development tasks. The company differentiates itself through a dual-product strategy combining Devin for independent execution with the recently acquired Windsurf IDE for human-in-the-loop collaboration, targeting enterprise integration into proprietary codebases. While AI capabilities in coding are projected to double every seven months, Cognition aims to elevate Devin to senior engineer status within a year, though future growth is anticipated to be constrained by energy availability rather than data scarcity.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Anthropic: The Great Equaliser: How Agentic AI Is Powering Europe’s Next Generation of Startups
Guillaume, Head of Anthropic for EMEA, discusses the strategic deployment of the Cloud4 coding model which self-wrote 90% of its own code to power a growing ecosystem of European startups like Dust and Lovable. The conversation highlights how major enterprises including BMW and Novo Nordisk are utilizing these models as virtual collaborators to accelerate R&D and customer service, while emphasizing Anthropic's strict data sovereignty and safety policies to address European regulatory concerns. Amidst this expansion, the company aims to hire over 100 new staff members across its London, Dublin, and Zurich offices to support the region's robust AI funding environment and mitigate local talent gaps.
- RAISE Summit18 min
A Chat with AI21 Labs: Building Custom AI Systems That Actually Work From Hype to Business Impact
AI21, a foundational LLM builder, highlights the persistent gap between individual AI experimentation and institutional production adoption, driven by "ChatGPT Syndrome" and fear of missing out. The company identifies a critical "underground movement" where employees innovate silently due to a lack of official guidelines, resulting in disjointed pilots and missed collective wisdom. To escape this paralysis, successful deployment requires multidisciplinary teams to map granular workflows and align stakeholders on clear KPIs, transforming informal usage into a structured, high-value organizational framework.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Roshn Group & Enhance Ventures: AI Meets Real Estate: Hype or Real Value
Robert, Yazeed Al-Ghamdi, Aristide, Maria Paula
Saudi Arabia's Roshan giga-project, mandated to deliver 400,000 housing units under Vision 2030, is leveraging Google Cloud AI and a proprietary digital sales platform to generate over 6 billion SAR in revenue while reducing land selection time by 40%. This hybrid transaction model, which integrates global KYC protocols and visualizes amenities for remote buyers, was further accelerated by the region's largest PropTech hackathon that sourced external solutions for operational bottlenecks. Driven by a young demographic and supported by upcoming infrastructure projects, the organization plans to launch a corporate venture capital arm and export its technology stack to international markets within the decade.
- RAISE Summit13 min
Serge Palaric, NVIDIA & Antoine Vaissié, Google Cloud: Better together
Serge Palaric, Antoine Vaissié, Serge Lachapelle
Google Cloud and NVIDIA have deepened their strategic partnership to deploy enterprise-scale AI, becoming the first provider to offer Blackwell architecture GPUs including the B200, GB200, and G4 instances for immediate production use. This collaboration integrates NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NIM inference microservices with Google's infrastructure to support evolving post-training and agentic AI workloads across healthcare, finance, and industrial sectors. By combining these technologies with confidential computing options and joint engineering efforts, the alliance enables organizations to accelerate secure AI deployment while reducing operational risks and addressing specific industry workflows.
- RAISE Summit19 min
A Fireside Chat with Himanshu Tyagi, CEO & Co-Founder of Sentient Foundation ft. FINOS
Co-founded by academic Iman Shutyagi, the Sentient Foundation advocates for a blockchain-enabled "creator economy" that allows open-source AI contributors to tokenize and monetize high-value assets like data and hyperparameters. The organization promotes open auditing and red teaming as primary safety mechanisms while predicting that global AI advancement will depend on a decentralized baseline rather than closed models or rigid regulatory thresholds. By targeting digital-native developers and utilizing decentralized compute, the initiative aims to sustain a competitive, open-source ecosystem where software contributions yield long-term financial value alongside technological progress.
- RAISE Summit17 min
A Keynote with Richard Rizk, & IRobert Rizk, BLACKBOX.AI
Co-founded by Robert and Richard Co, Blackbox has scaled its autonomous coding agent platform to over 20 million users, securing the top rank among code-related AI startups on Andreessen Horowitz's 2024 adoption list. The system distinguishes itself through features like Figma-to-code conversion, voice-enabled remote execution, and a "Robocoder" module that resolves GitHub issues asynchronously within isolated secure environments. While integrating with over 35 IDEs and offering unified model access, the company emphasizes a human-in-the-loop philosophy to augment developer productivity rather than replace engineers.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Neo4j, Eurazeo Growth: Connected Intelligence Why Graph Technology Is the Missing Link in GenAI
Eurasio Fund identified graph technology as essential for bridging the gap between GenAI prototypes and production environments, a strategy validated by Gartner's finding that knowledge graphs increase success rates by 80%. Major enterprises like Klarna now leverage this approach to eliminate thousands of legacy applications and accelerate processing speeds by 1,000 times, while Neo4j serves as the underlying infrastructure for 84 Fortune 100 companies. The industry further solidified this shift in 2023 when the ISO standardized the Cypher query language as GQL, cementing graph databases as a critical component for explainability and security in complex AI systems.
- RAISE Summit17 min
Stephane Kasriel, Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR): Frontier AI From Research to Production
Stephane Kasriel, Stefan, Stephen Beyrer, Romain Guyett
Stefan Beirer leads Meta's Fundamental AI Research division in a $60 billion infrastructure expansion aimed at transitioning AI from academic theory to consumer-scale products through a Bell Labs-style model. This strategy leverages the open-source Llama ecosystem and real-time emotional avatars to drive global adoption while refuting immediate mass displacement fears by citing current hardware limitations. Beirer projects that massive compute investments will drive inference costs down by up to 1,000x within two years, enabling "always-on" devices and accelerating a decade of technological progress comparable to the first industrial revolution.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Ronan Harris (Snap Inc): Bringing AI into the world through augmented reality ft. Bloomberg News
Snap plans to launch new consumer Spectacles next year while leveraging a platform strategy that currently supports 8 billion daily augmented reality lens uses among its 900 million users. The company is differentiating itself from hardware-focused competitors by fostering a developer ecosystem of 400,000 creators and integrating AI partners like Google and OpenAI to drive both ad targeting and third-party experiences. Despite facing stock declines and layoffs, Snap's leadership argues that adopting machine learning and resisting strict age bans are essential for maintaining market relevance against major global competitors.
- The Economist7 min
Mark Carney on dealing with Donald Trump
Mark Carney, Donald Trump, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Prime Minister Carney, Sani
Prime Minister Carney attributes Canada's recent economic stagnation to persistent tariff uncertainty while characterizing U.S. trade policy as a coercive "mafioso" strategy driven by President Trump. In response to this geopolitical rupture, Ottawa is pivoting toward strategic sovereignty by bolstering Arctic defense and cultivating a "variable geometry" of trade alliances to reduce reliance on the American market. This dual approach acknowledges a permanent shift toward high-tariff U.S. protectionism, compelling Canada to prioritize self-sufficiency and diversify global partnerships beyond traditional transatlantic frameworks.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Cohere, Adobe, Teneo: Revolutionizing Enterprise Search with AI. Unlock The Potential of Your Data
Philippe Massoncier, Nick Morales, Abhijit Singh
Adobe and Cohere have formally partnered to integrate Cohere's AI embedding and re-ranking models into Adobe Document Cloud, powering the Acrobat AI Assistant with multilingual and multimodal search capabilities across over 100 languages. This collaboration transforms enterprise search from simple retrieval to intelligent action by unifying fragmented data from systems like Salesforce and SharePoint, while enforcing strict trust pipelines through Retrieval-Augmented Generation to ensure all AI responses are cited to source documents. By offering flexible deployment options including private on-premises infrastructure, the alliance directly addresses critical barriers to enterprise AI adoption such as data silos, security compliance, and the need for context-rich data to enable autonomous AI agents.
- RAISE Summit20 min
NYSE, ICONIQ, NFDG/ AI Grant: From SaaS to Superintelligence How AI Is Rewriting Growth Economics
Investors from NFDG and Iconic discuss a private AI market defined by unprecedented valuations for young firms, where aggressive growth expectations now outweigh traditional age-based benchmarks. The dialogue highlights shifting financial mechanics, such as the prevalence of hybrid pricing models and the critical importance of velocity over static data moats in defending against hyperscalers. Looking forward, the speakers identify biology and service-heavy verticals like legal and healthcare as primary arenas for disruption as AI transitions from cloud-enabled tools to native operational infrastructures.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Chris Stephens (Groq) & Judith Gardiner (Equinix): Enabling AI Inference for the European Market
Chris Stephens, Judith Gardiner, Christopher Coleman-
Grok and Equinix have formalized a strategic partnership to deploy AI inference services across Equinix's 270 global data centers, initiating operations in Helsinki with a roadmap for rapid expansion into Southern Europe and Africa. Leveraging specialized 14nm chips that significantly reduce power consumption and Equinix Fabric for low-latency connectivity, the collaboration addresses surging enterprise demand for sovereign cloud solutions and data residency in regulated sectors. This alliance prioritizes speed to market, evidenced by previous 30-day deployment cycles, while integrating sustainability measures such as waste heat recovery and renewable energy sourcing to support the industry's shift toward distributed inference workloads.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Paul Copplestone (SupaBase) & Abel Samot (Commit): Open Source Backend for the AI Age
Paul Copplestone, Abel Samot, DAN GALPIN, FRANCESC CAMPOY, ALEXIS MOUSSINE
Supabase has achieved a $2 billion valuation following a $200 million funding round, driven by a user base that tripled to over 3 million developers and a strategy positioning the open-source platform as a default modern web backend. Founder Paul Copplestone highlights rapid adoption fueled by AI-assisted "vibe coding" tools while the company pursues enterprise growth through "configuration over customization" and upcoming infrastructure breakthroughs like the Multigress sharding solution. Operating as a fully remote organization of 140 specialists, the firm continues scaling by launching Pico instances for zero-to-one applications and recruiting senior talent to support petabyte-scale database capabilities.