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How AI Saved My Life and Will Save Yours | Olivier Goy, Paris Brain Institute | RAISE 2026
Following his 2020 ALS diagnosis, the speaker collaborated with the Paris Brain Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital to deploy AI-driven technologies that restored his voice and accelerated neurological research. This strategic partnership, supported by a $600,000 personal founding gift, focuses on transforming the "One Brain" initiative into a unified front against diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. To finance this work, the organizations launched "The Wall" project, inviting donors to contribute portraits that directly fund the development of robotic surgical tools and pattern-recognition algorithms.
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Rethinking AI Infrastructure for the Age of Reasoning | Jeehoon Kang, FuriosaAI | RAISE 2026
Furiosa AI is initiating mass production of its second-generation Renegade chip, a 180-watt tensor contraction processor fabricated on TSMC 5nm technology to deliver 30% to 100% higher token-per-watt performance in traditional air-cooled data centers. The device utilizes a hybrid HBM-SRAM architecture and a deterministic compiler stack to eliminate power efficiency bottlenecks while offering immediate deployment via OpenAPI and Kubernetes plugins. Following this launch, the company has partnered with Broadcom to develop the third-generation Torque chip, which targets hyperscale direct liquid cooling systems with expected performance scaling of up to 30 times the current generation.
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Beyond Creativity: Why Generative Media Is Becoming Core Infrastructure | Fal | RAISE Summit 2026
Gorkem Yurtseven, Joshua Shirazi, Josh Rossi, Gorkham, Yigit Boyar
Alkion Capital Management and FAL AI are capitalizing on a fragmented generative media market by providing a unified platform that hosts over 600 base models for 2 million developers across image, video, and audio modalities. While video generation initially dominated revenue, the platform has pivoted to image editing as Flux models matured, addressing high compute costs and Hollywood's recent adoption of AI-native workflows. Future growth depends on solving cinematic consistency for long-form video and navigating complex IP landscapes, with major expansion anticipated in untapped sectors like healthcare and education.
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Building the Next Generation of Software | Des Traynor, Fin | RAISE Summit 2026
Facing existential threats from stagnating growth and AI disruption in August 2022, Intercom executed a radical corporate transformation under new leadership to pivot entirely toward its new AI product, Finn. This comprehensive overhaul shifted the company's product strategy from static user interfaces to dynamic, intent-based agentic systems while overhauling engineering workflows to leverage AI for tripled velocity and improved code reliability. The initiative has since generated nearly $100 million in AI-specific revenue on a total base exceeding $400 million, culminating in an agreement to be acquired by Salesforce.
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The New Arms Race: Securing Frontier AI Before It Secures Us | RAISE Summit 2026
Dan Lahav, Michael S. Rogers, Larissa Holzki
Driven by recent security incidents where AI models demonstrated autonomous hacking capabilities and coordinated social engineering, the US government has intervened to restrict model access while assigning the NSA the role of classifying AI as a national security asset. Experts highlight that rapid technological evolution outpaces current regulatory frameworks, creating a landscape where open-source vulnerabilities and autonomous agent behaviors present unprecedented insider risks that static defenses cannot contain. Consequently, business leaders are advised to adopt aggressive scenario planning and sandboxing protocols to manage the uncertainty of a future where machine-to-machine coordination fundamentally alters the threat environment.
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AI for Chip Design & Chip Design for AI | Ricursive Intelligence | RAISE Summit 2026
Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Azalea Amir-Hosseini
Founded by former Google Brain engineers Anna Goldie and Azalea Amir-Hosseini, Recursive Intelligence deploys its AlphaChip reinforcement learning system to replace months of manual chip design with superhuman layout generation that runs 1,000 times faster than commercial tools. The company is currently in Phase One, accelerating physical design for major manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD, while its roadmap targets a "design-less" future where companies specify workloads to receive co-optimized hardware instantly. Ultimately, Recursive aims to close a recursive self-improving loop by eventually building its own chips and models, promising up to 20x performance gains through microarchitectural customization.
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The Agentic Web is Next: Building the Infrastructure for AI Agents on the Web | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded by Co-CEO Abhishek, Yotori deploys its autonomous Navigator N1.5 model to execute web-based enterprise tasks at a fraction of the cost and latency of frontier competitors. The platform currently processes over 100 million monthly API calls for Fortune 100 advertisers and fintech firms, enabling complex workflows like automated checkout fraud detection and cross-site data extraction. With Navigator N2 slated for release within two months to expand into general computer use, the company invites businesses with heavy browser workflows to partner on its heterogeneous, cost-optimized infrastructure.
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Perfect Search, Built for AI Agents | Will Bryk, Exa | RAISE Summit 2026
Exa is rapidly scaling its semantic search infrastructure to power the next generation of AI agents, which are projected to outnumber human web searches within the year. By leveraging deep learning embeddings and a new marketplace for proprietary data, the platform enables precise, low-latency queries that reduce LLM costs while aiming for 99.9999% decision accuracy. This technology drives the company's mission to transition the digital landscape from keyword-based recommendations to "perfect search," targeting the 2028 U.S. presidential election as a pivotal milestone for enhancing societal decision-making.
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Hot Takes & Hard Truths: Building Growth That Compounds | Clay x CapitalG | RAISE Summit 2026
Clay repositions itself as an AI go-to-market platform that transitions sales operations into self-learning revenue engines by integrating third-party data signals to execute scalable growth campaigns. Co-founder Varun leads a strategic shift toward "marketing alpha," utilizing unique tactics like custom film production and rapid, data-driven prospecting to secure high returns on investment for clients such as Canva and Anthropic. The company further distinguishes its value through a new pricing model based on workflow outcomes rather than data tokens, while emphasizing environmental fit in talent acquisition to maximize organizational performance.
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From Metal to Model: Why Operations Win the AI Infrastructure Race | Mirantis | RAISE Summit 2026
Mirantis is launching Cordoned AI, a metal-to-model platform designed to address the shift toward inference-dominated workloads where hardware commoditization makes operational full-stack ownership the primary competitive advantage. The event highlights how rising failure rates in massive GPU clusters necessitate advanced observability and rigorous process procedures to reduce downtime and control costs. By enabling dynamic management of both CPU and GPU resources through an open architecture, the solution aims to support the diverse latency and throughput requirements of modern AI infrastructure.
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The Token-per-Watt Era: What's Next for AI Hyperscalers | Nebius x Accel | RAISE Summit 2026
Roman Chernin, Philippe Botteri
Nebius, an AI-specialized cloud provider led by Chief Business Officer Roman Tchernin, marks its second anniversary as an independent entity with shares rising tenfold following its IPO. The company targets the projected $11 trillion global investment in AI infrastructure by offering a vertically integrated stack ranging from bare metal for hyperscalers to managed inference for AI-native startups. Nebius anticipates that true enterprise adoption beyond current exceptions like fintech firms remains unrealized and aims to future-proof its platform by shifting pricing models toward billing for solved tasks rather than raw compute hours.
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Fireside Chat with Matan Grinberg, Founder & CEO of Factory | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded in 2023 by ex-physics PhD Matan Grinberg, Factory operates as a model-agnostic router that enables enterprises to deploy fully on-premises autonomous software agents directly within existing developer workflows. The company rapidly scaled from ten to ten thousand users within months by offering a cost-effective alternative to vendor lock-in, notably accelerating legacy COBOL migration and allowing sovereign data deployments for regulated industries. Backed by investors including Sequoia and Avant Capital, Factory currently automates both software engineering tasks and emerging non-software productivity use cases while predicting a future dominance of open models over frontier closed ones.
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From Megawatts to Gigawatts: Building the AI Factories | Lenovo x NVIDIA | RAISE Summit 2026
John Donovan, David Hogan, Roxanne Varza
John of Lenovo and David of NVIDIA are advancing a deep engineering partnership to construct gigawatt-scale "AI factories" that integrate hardware, power infrastructure, and software optimization to address a projected global capacity doubling. Their four-stage deployment framework, which spans from conceptual design to post-launch model orchestration, specifically targets the European market's urgent need to close a 12-month GPU access gap while navigating complex regulatory and energy constraints. By combining Lenovo's global manufacturing scale with NVIDIA's regional expertise, the initiative aims to transform Europe into a sovereign AI hub capable of leveraging unique domain data for next-generation robotics and industrial applications.
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AI Transformation Playbook: Practical Lessons from our AI-First Journey | Make | RAISE Summit 2026
Visual workflow automation scale-up Make transitioned to an AI-first entity over two and a half years by implementing a three-phase strategy that combined a dedicated "Samurai" transformation team with a mandatory quarterly "AI Bar" for all 300 employees. This structured approach increased internal AI agent usage from 16% to 96% and generated 23 successful projects in a single year, achieving a 70% success rate compared to the industry average of 5–10%. The initiative shifted organizational focus from debating adoption to executing context management, resulting in 73% of projects directly impacting core business KPIs across every department.
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Infrastructure-as-Prompt: Turning Intent Into Infrastructure | emma | RAISE Summit 2026
emma, Dmitry Panenkov, Dimitri
EMMA, a Luxembourg-headquartered sovereign cloud provider backed by investors including BlackRock, launched its "Infrastructure as Prompt" platform in September to automate cloud management through natural language interfaces. The system functions as a unified control layer that minimizes data egress costs and reduces deployment time to fifteen minutes by selecting optimal compute instances across hyperscalers and on-premises environments. As European sovereign cloud spending remains a small fraction of the global market, EMMA's approach aims to redefine digital sovereignty by shifting control from geographic location to governance and access management while offering a proprietary fleet of accelerators ranging from enterprise to consumer-grade models.