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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit18 min
Keynote by Carla Bünger & Thomas Taroni, CEOs of KORE & Phoenix Technologies | RAISE Summit 2024
QANDA AI is launching a 1,500-square-meter Innovation Center in Basel, Switzerland, to facilitate collaboration with partners like IBM, Red Hat, and Meta while addressing the security risks of US-based cloud infrastructure. The platform leverages sovereign cloud architecture on IBM Watson X to ensure strict data control, enabling enterprises in sensitive sectors such as Swiss banking and luxury goods to deploy generative models that combat brand dilution and misinformation. By prioritizing cost-efficient, hybrid infrastructure with real-time access governance, the initiative allows organizations to process petabytes of data locally without exposing proprietary information to foreign jurisdictions.
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Keynote by Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO InstaDeep | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
The presentation outlines a paradigm shift where artificial intelligence has entered a self-accelerating phase driven by exponential gains in data, compute, and model efficiency, transitioning from passive Large Language Models to active, collaborative smart agents capable of physical and digital execution. Leaders in the field like InstaDeep and Tesla demonstrate that sustainable competitive advantage now relies on a virtuous loop combining differentiated data, deep domain expertise, and robust simulation capabilities to enable autonomous systems that continuously improve. This evolution promises to redefine industrial optimization and software development by deploying specialized multi-agent collaborations that solve complex problems without human intervention.
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'How GenAI Disrupted Customer Support' by Des Traynor, Founder & CSO Intercom | RAISE Summit 2024
Intercom rapidly pivoted to an AI-first strategy following the 2023 launch of ChatGPT, deploying its autonomous Finn agent to resolve eight million support queries while displacing 750,000 hours of human labor. To ensure reliability in high-volume sectors like software and e-commerce, the company prioritizes proprietary data sources over public web content to minimize hallucinations and employs a rigorous model-agnostic evaluation framework. This transformation, which intentionally cannibalizes traditional human agent seats to prevent external disruption, is set to expand into multimodal voice and visual analysis with a collaborative human-AI platform launching in mid-April.
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'AI Deployment: Trainwreck or Trailblazer?' Marten Mickos from HackerOne | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
The event addresses the critical deployment gap causing half of enterprises to hesitate on AI adoption due to fears of security breaches, financial loss, and brand damage. Featuring insights from industry leaders like Brett Taylor and case studies from Hugging Face, Anthropic, and Snap, the presentation highlights how rigorous external red teaming and transparent disclosure programs mitigate specific risks such as prompt injections and systemic bias. By demonstrating that preparedness transforms vulnerability into a competitive advantage, the discussion advocates for unbiased validation of AI systems to prevent operational disruption and secure organizational trust.
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'The Future of Software With GenAI' by Marek Kalnik, Group Partner Theodo | RAISE Summit 2024
Industry leaders and enterprise innovators are rapidly integrating generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot and autonomous agents into software production, with over one million paid licenses and near-universal developer exposure driving a shift from simple automation to system-wide architectural redesign. As AI capabilities mature to solve 13–14% of real-world tasks autonomously and achieve high correctness on coding benchmarks, organizations are evolving from "co-pilot" models toward two-tiered structures where machines handle execution while humans focus on high-level design, quality assurance, and security-sensitive asset creation. This transformation promises to redefine team roles, reduce development costs, and enable new business models centered on personalized software and legacy system maintenance.
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Keynote by Wes Cummins, CEO and Co-Founder of Applied Digital | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Applied Digital CEO Wes Cummings outlined the company's strategic pivot from blockchain mining to purpose-built, high-power-density data centers located near renewable energy generation to address the critical power scarcity driving AI expansion. By co-locating liquid-cooled facilities with wind farms and utilizing curtailed energy, the firm aims to deliver over 400 megawatts of capacity while serving early enterprise customers like Character AI. This infrastructure shift responds to a market bottleneck where forecasts predict US data center power needs could quadruple by 2030, far exceeding historical construction rates.
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Machine Unlearning: Making AI Forget | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Hirundo addresses the critical compliance gap identified by Stanford research, where 83% of foundational models violate the EU AI Act by trapping irreversible personal data and sensitive information. The company offers a neuro-surgical unlearning platform that enables engineers and compliance officers to selectively erase specific data from trained models in minutes, achieving 95% efficiency gains over traditional retraining. Backed by Alpha Intelligence Capital and led by a team including the former Dean of Computer Science at the Technion, Hirundo positions selective unlearning as the essential standard for navigating global data privacy regulations without sacrificing model performance.
- All-In Podcast14 min
All-In Summit 2023 Recap
The Awning Conference in Los Angeles convened high-profile figures including Ray Dalio and industry grinders to discuss geopolitical shifts, the transformative potential of AI, and radical scientific advancements like viral brain cancer therapy. Despite logistical friction involving key personality lateness and pre-event resource shortages, the event fostered unscripted debates on macroeconomic trajectories, the rise of "luxury beliefs," and the necessity of separating Silicon Valley from Washington's regulatory influence. Participants ultimately emphasized that despite global instability, collective agency and open dialogue remain the defining mechanisms for addressing humanity's upcoming crises of meaning and governance.
- Sequoia Capital7 min
AI-augmented game development with Inworld co-founder Kylan Gibbs
Kylan In-World has launched a vertically integrated platform combining a local execution runtime engine with an AI studio to resolve the industry tension between technical performance and creative control in game development. Backed by strategic partnerships with NVIDIA, Microsoft Studios, and Ubisoft, the system powers dynamic narratives by processing multi-modal inputs in parallel to generate real-time quests, adjust environmental states, and modify mission objectives based on player dialogue. By prioritizing local latency reduction over cloud-based models, the technology enables non-scripted interactions where emotional states and relationship dynamics evolve in the backend to directly influence gameplay mechanics.
- Sequoia Capital11 min
AI-powered workflow automation with Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop
Zapier is launching Zapier Central, a new platform that replaces its traditional workflow canvas with natural language "AI Bots" capable of executing over 500,000 autonomous actions. These self-healing agents utilize zero-shot inference to automatically configure triggers, resolve parameters, and repair broken steps when external variables shift without manual intervention. The system now supports all 7,000 existing integrations while allowing users to refine bot behavior through direct feedback and a threading feature for step-level approval.
- Sequoia Capital7 min
What's next for AI agents ft. LangChain's Harrison Chase
Harrison Chase positions LangChain as the dominant generative orchestration platform, while defining agent systems as loop-based entities that utilize language models to plan, act, and observe external tools. To address current reliability gaps in complex reasoning, the discourse advocates for "flow engineering" strategies that offload planning logic to human-designed state machines and introduces a "rewind and edit" user experience to facilitate human-in-the-loop correction. Furthermore, the next generation of agent applications is expected to integrate distinct procedural and personalized memory architectures, enabling systems to retain specific workflows and user preferences for enhanced personalization and task completion.
- Sequoia Capital14 min
What's next for AI agentic workflows ft. Andrew Ng of AI Fund
AI agents are driving a paradigm shift from single-step prompting to iterative workflows that combine reflection, multi-agent collaboration, tool use, and planning to achieve results that can surpass larger, faster models running in zero-shot mode. This approach allows systems using smaller language models like GPT-3.5 to outperform GPT-4 on complex benchmarks such as HumanEval by enabling self-correction loops and specialized role delegation. While reflection patterns are now robust enough for immediate integration, emerging capabilities in planning and multi-agent debate are expected to dramatically expand the scope of autonomous tasks over the coming year.
- Dwarkesh Patel10 min
What a GPT-7 Intelligence Explosion Looks Like | Carl Shulman
The discussion outlines mitigation strategies for early detection of hostile AI motivations alongside a defined productivity threshold where AI contributions match or exceed human researcher output. It details operational mechanisms such as voting algorithms, cost-effective scaling of smaller models, and self-generated curricula that enable intelligence explosions without relying solely on brute force capability. These approaches combine hard physical constraints with empirical verification to ensure safety while accelerating innovation through distributed compute and structured learning environments.
- Dwarkesh Patel7 min
Sarah Paine – Maritime vs Continental Powers
The speaker contrasts Russia's antiquated continental model of territorial conquest with the maritime order's "win-win" system built on commerce and international law, arguing that Vladimir Putin's rejection of integration has squandered Russia's economic potential. By framing the current conflict as a strategic timeout for Russia, the analysis highlights how the Biden administration's multilateral approach has successfully mobilized former neutral nations like Finland and Sweden to enforce an impregnable border. Ultimately, the discourse advocates for preserving the post-WWII legal framework through a collaborative, non-hegemonic system that allows for Russia's eventual reintegration provided it adheres to established rules.
- Dwarkesh Patel7 min
Are We On Path Towards Superhuman Intelligence? – Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO)
The speaker projects that economic investment and hardware advances will drive AI capabilities to match a generally educated human within two to three years, while acknowledging that scaling laws are currently bending to yield increasing returns. Despite this rapid acceleration, the speaker cautions against precise predictions of "superhuman" universality, noting that safety regulations and the complexity of physical embodiment may introduce significant messiness and delay. This trajectory suggests models will soon lead in scientific progress and specialized domains like math, yet the exact nature of their future impact remains distinct from traditional narratives of existential threat or total autonomy.